Re:News Agencies (Score 1)

Umm...sort-of. Yes, they are the exact same virus, doing the same thing to the human body. However, the terms are different. HIV is the early infection, from the day you catch the virus until your T-cell count drops below 200. Also, at the point you will not show any symptoms, besides a few flu-like symptoms very early in the infection that go away fairly quickly. Once your T-cell count drops below 200 or you start to show some signs/symptoms of AIDS than you are no longer labeled as an HIV patient, but rather as an AIDS patient. This is where the symptoms start to appear, and more or less the end is near.