Here are a couple of amusing statistics from the CDC's 2006 HIVAIDS
surveillance report at
<http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/default.htm>.
<http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2006report/table12.htm>:
estimated number of people in the US living with HIV: 233,079;
estimated number of people in the US living with AIDS: 448,871.
At first glance it appears that the US has almost twice as many people
with AIDS as it does with HIV.
HIV without AIDS? Of course not. For statistical purposes the CDC do
not list people who have AIDS as also having HIV, despite the fact
that AIDS is defined as HIV with something else.
What's interesting about these figures is they demonstrate how easy it
is to get an AIDS diagnoses in the US.
Compare this to HIVAIDS numbers in the UK.
<http://www.avert.org/uksummary.htm>:
there has been a total of 93,231 cases of HIV and 23,596 cases of AIDS
diagnosed in the UK.
So, it's estimated that almost two thirds of HIVers in the US have
AIDS, however little more than a quarter of the UKs HIVers have had
AIDS.
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