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Author Re: by Joseph Shapiro. About 1 million Americans have HIV -- but an estimated 25 perce
DavidT

2006-09-27, 8:20 am

For someone who is supposedly an accredited physician with 25 years
experience of AIDS our friend Dr Dach seems to have next to no grasp of
epidemiology.

Dr Dach, please can you give citations of peer-reviewed publications
providing evidence that those who would test positive through a
screening programme are "elite controllers"



Chris Noble wrote:
> jdach wrote:
>
> Duhhh.
>
> One figure is the HIV prevalence and the other is the AIDS incidence.
>
> The actual figure you wanted was the number of people living with AIDS
> which is estimated to be about 415,000 in 2004 in the US.
>
> A large proportion of people infected with HIV do not show clinical
> symptoms for a number of years. This does not make them elite
> controllers or long term non-progressors.
>
> Chris Noble


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