AIDS vs HIV-AIDS

[Recursion]

I was reading a biomed journal today in a vain attempt to pretend I can still keep up this many years after grad school, and I noticed something. I've seen "HIV-AIDS" used rather than "AIDS" for years now, but this article actually spelled out the acronym as "HIV-associated immunodeficiency syndrome", whereas I had grown up thinking of it as "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome".

Does anybody know when that change happened?

[Warpy]

1. HIV positive means you've been exposed to the virus and are making antibodies against it.

AIDS means you've had it for a long time or haven't had it treated and your immune system has collapsed.

I have no clue about what HIV-AIDS means unless it is an attempt to conflate the infected but treated and living well with the sick and dying.

[Recursion]

4. There are immunodeficiency syndromes not associated with HIV

I remember that much from my lab fellowship. Particularly among IV drug users and hemopheliacs, and this caused some errors in diagnosis that were only corrected in the late 1990s. (It doesn't help that the side effects of ARVs more or less mimic the symptoms of AIDS.) Coke fiends will have their immune system collapse quite on its own, without the bug. Hemopheliacs who get frequent transfusions will too (this made actually tracing the blood transfusion transmissions devilishly hard).

I was mostly just curious about the history of the usage.

[Spider Jerusalem]

2. A lot of the clinical literature (papers and such)...

refers to "HIV-associated immune deficiency syndrome". The term "acquired immune deficiency syndrome" was in use before it was known that HIV was the cause of AIDS. Now that we know HIV does cause AIDS, "HIV-associated immune deficiency" seems to be more common (at least among medical professionals).

On edit: the earliest references I get for "Acquired immune deficiency syndrome" from Google Scholar are from c. 1981-82; the earliest reference to "HIV-associated immune deficiency" is 1989.

[Recursion]

3. Thank you. I should have thought of Google Scholar

Thanks!