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Web Site Search: Health Information Saturday, November 22, 2008 Find more information about this topic from either the Web or the world's best medical journals by using the search boxes at the top of this page.   The Relationship Between the Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Table of Contents Introduction The Definition of AIDS The Designation AIDS is a Surveillance Tool Quantifying the Epidemic A Brief History of the Emergence of AIDS Initial Theories Retrovirus Hypothesis Seroprevalence Surveys HIV and Other Lentiviruses Course of HIV Infection Immunologic Profile of People With AIDS Mechanisms of CD4+ T Cell Depletion Koch's Postulates Fulfilled Evidence From Animal and Laboratory Models Geographic Considerations Evidence From Blood Donor-Recipient Pairs Impact of HIV Infection on Mortality of Hemophiliacs Pediatric AIDS Single Source Outbreak of Pediatric AIDS Answering the Skeptics: the "Risk-AIDS" or "Behavioral Hypothesis" AIDS and Injection Drug Users Sex and the AIDS Epidemic Drug Use in the Pre-AIDS Era AZT and AIDS Disease Progression Despite Antibodies Risks Associated With Transfusion Exposure to Factor VIII Distribution of AIDS Cases AIDS in Africa Conclusion References   September 17, 1999

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