Here is the official WHO guidelines for diagnosing AIDS in Africa - copied straight from their website. You will see they are very different from the rules used in the West to diagnose AIDS (see)

Note the final line - if a patient scores 12 they are diagnosed with AIDS, they do not need more points - and that this is without an HIV test .

BANGUI CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS OF AIDS

Exclusion criteria (If these are present then it is not AIDS)
1. Pronounced malnutrition
2. Cancer (excluding Kaposi Sarcoma)
3. Immunosuppressive treatment

Inclusion criteria with the corresponding scores

Important signs

Weight loss exceeding 10% of body weight 4 points
Protracted asthenia(defined as ‘weakness or debility’ 4

Very frequent signs

Continuous or repeated attacks of fever for
more than a month 3
Diarrhoea lasting for more than a month 3

Other signs

Cough 2
Pneumopathy (Any disease of the lungs) 4 points
Oropharyngeal candidiasis (Thrush in mouth or throat) 4 points
Chronic or relapsing cutaneous herpes (severe rash,) 4
Generalized pruritic dermatosis (severe itching) 4
Herpes zoster (relapsing) (a painful infectious skin rash) 4
Generalized adenopathy (enlargement of lymph modes.) 2 points
Neurological signs (signs pertaining to nervous system) 2
Generalized Kaposi's sarcoma (a skin cancer) 12

'THE DIAGNOSIS OF AIDS IS ESTABLISHED WHEN THE SCORE IS 12 OR MORE.’

I suggest that a lot of diseases may score 12 or more - and do.

Janine Roberts

the CDC full definition.

here is the official document

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00018871.htm

The enormous list of diseases now given an AIDS diagnosis is listed in Appendix B - and Appendix C has the original AIDS diseases whose presence is 'presumptive" of AIDS

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