>>11499435Not in the way used by AIDS/HIV denialists, however:
>HIV doesn't cause AIDSOne can have the virus without the syndrome as in people who receive antiretrovirals. There is also a conflation between “seropositive” and “HIV infected”. In principle one can be seropositive to HIV (i.e.: have antibodies against it) without having any HIV nor AIDS. This would happen if one extracts anti-HIV antibodies from a person with AIDS, purify them and inject them into somebody without HIV. It could also happen with a immune challenge with deactivated HIV, as in vaccines.
>that AIDS can be caused without HIV?Immunodeficiency can be caused by many things other than HIV. Glucocorticoids cause immunosuppression. One way this happens in practice is by excess use of steroidal antiinflammatories.
