Which one mean that you have AIDS?

HIV positive Or
HIV negative

Technically neither.

HIV positive means that you are infected with HIV. AIDS is a disease syndrome. It may take years for someone who is infected with HIV to develop AIDS. The guidelines for diagnosing someone with AIDS accoding to the CDC includes all HIV positive people with a CD4+ T cell count below 200 per 碌L of blood or 14% of all lymphocytes.

HIV positive

Neither.
If you are HIV positive, it means that you are infected with the virus that may lead to AIDS. You could live for many years and not develop AIDS.

AIDS is not a single disease, it stands for Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The HIV virus attacks the immune system causing the person to have multiple infections and other problems related to the immune system. There are many new drugs that help to control the HIV virus so it can't reproduce very quickly and helps to preserve the immune system. So people who are HIV+ don't always have AIDS.

Neither....HIV positive could lead to AIDS
Just because a person has HIV doenst mean they have AIDS

Well, neither, really. HIV is the retrovirus that causes AIDS. When you are HIV positive, you have the potential to develop the disease, but do not necessarily (and will not necessarily) become ill.

The short answer to your question, though, is HIV+. If you are HIV-, the retrovirus is not present in your blood, and therefore cannot make you ill with AIDS.

If you are HIV positive, it means you have the virus that causes AIDS.

HIV positive means you will eventually get AIDS

If you are HIV positive then it means you have the virus that leads to AIDS.... AIDS is a syndrome.... Not a virus or even disease in and of itself.

Neither dear.
HIV is an STD, but it is not the same as AIDS it does different things to your body, but it does kill your immune system wich makes it easier to cantract AIDS.

HIV positive means antibodies against the HIV virus can be found in a person麓s blood, a sign that he/she has been infected by the virus. AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, which is a complex of symptoms and lab findings, mostly very low white blood cells and a high susceptibility to become infected by otherwise innocuous germs and (sometimes) rare types of cancer. Being HIV positive means the virus is there, but it can be dormant for a very long time, even decades, before the actual disease ( AIDS) develops; HIV positivity means a person will develop AIDS eventually, but he/she is not necessarily sick at a given point in time.

HIV positive can develop into AIDS

HIV positive