Don....you are being extremely silly, if you cannot understand the point Keith is making about late diagnosis and mortality, perhaps you would be in a more comfortable zone in another thread?

Of course late diagnosis also affects death rates in other serious illnesses, but you were attempting to contend that Aids was no longer viewed as a serious illness ....were you not?

The piece I posted stated that "mortality is 14 times higher in hiv positive persons, than in the general population, after adjustment for age and sex"