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Re: HIV[edit]

I believe you misunderstand. My edit removed anachronisms and replaced them with the names that were then current; it's like writing an article about an event in the pre-World War I South Tyrol and calling the major city "Bolzano" instead of "Bozen", or an event in an eastern Pennsylvania town at the same time and calling it "Jim Thorpe" instead of "Mauch Chunk", or an event in Ouagadougou in 1965 and saying that it happened in "Burkina Faso" instead of "Upper Volta". Nyttend (talk) 12:05, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

jup, I thought the edits were the other wy round, sorry. --Xtothel (talk) 07:42, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, and thanks for looking out. Nyttend (talk) 11:44, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

HIV article minor edit[edit]

My concern with how the first sentence was originally stated is that it helps conflate HIV and AIDS as one thing which is a common misconception among the civilian public. HIV and AIDS are s used interchangeably when they are in fact two very different things (a virus and a condition). My goal with this edit was to emphasize this differentiation by adding a chronological condition to acquiring AIDS. The way the sentence read to me was that AIDS ss caused immediately after or at the same time as HIV. I agree that it convolutes the sentence a little bit but I think it is worth it for the extra differentiation between the virus and the condition. Feel free to revert if you feel strongly against.

The original wording The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes HIV infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Boilingorangejuice (talk) 16:57, 26 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]