Editing Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS (section)

===HIV-positive individuals can be detected by their appearance===
Due to media images of the effects of AIDS, many people believe that individuals infected with HIV always appear a certain way, or at least appear different from an uninfected, healthy person. In fact, disease progression can occur over a long period of time before the onset of symptoms, and as such, HIV infections cannot be detected based on appearance.<ref>{{cite web|author=Piya Sorcar|title=Teaching Taboo Topics Without Talking About Them: An Epistemic Study of a New Approach to HIV/AIDS Prevention Education in India|url=http://teachaids.org/download/dissertation-teaching-taboo-topics.pdf|publisher=[[Stanford University]], [[TeachAids]]|date=March 2009|author-link=Piya Sorcar}}</ref>