Talk:HIV

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Why on EARTH would you EVER merge HIV and AIDS. They are related but completely different entity. HIV is a virus and AIDS is a syndrome. I'm taking off the tag until someone can provide me a good reason for doing so. 121.125.222.222 (talk) 18:01, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've not been involved in this, but probably because it's far easier, in Simple English, to have an HIV/AIDS article with information about both - unless you are a subscriber to the fringe theory that HIV is not the cause of AIDS? MindTheGap (talk) 18:04, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I never said HIV doesn't cause AIDS. I'm just saying that from the medical point of view, cause and effect need to be separated. There are many different information pertaining solely to HIV (Although not written yet) rather than AIDS. Even this is a Simple English wiki, considering the length of the information which may need to be written for HIV and AIDS, it would be improper to merge both sections. 121.125.222.222 (talk) 18:39, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Isn't HIV just a more severe case of AIDS? Razor flame 19:48, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

No. In very basic terms, HIV is the virus that destroys the immune system, while AIDS is the syndrome of having such a severely weakened immune system. But that's just a very, very basic explanation MindTheGap (talk) 20:19, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

In Simple english wikipedia the idea of of cause and effect neatly flowing together in one article seems logical. We are not aiming for the mass of minutiae in detail that may suit ENWP. It would perhaps be inappropriate to redirect AIDS here, better to redirect both the AIDS and HIV articles to a new page with a title such as "HIV and AIDS". HIV/AIDS implies they are the same thing and so is not a suitable title. The mergetags should not be removed until this discussion is over, they should not be removed simply because one anonymous editor demands reasons.--Bärl iner 20:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am glad to see that common sense prevailed, and we do now have a separate page for the medical condition. I have changed the statement which read that HIV could be caught from any kind of sex. That's obviously not the case, because there are many types of sex which do not involve penetration of any kind. 'Sexual intercourse' is what was meant. Also I have added a table from enWP which is very convincing as to what causes the most infections. Macdonald-ross (talk) 09:09, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]