Editing Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS (section)

===There is no AIDS in Africa, as AIDS is nothing more than a new name for old diseases===
The diseases that have come to be associated with [[AIDS in Africa]], such as [[cachexia]], diarrheal diseases and [[tuberculosis]] have long been severe burdens there. However, high rates of [[death|mortality]] from these diseases, formerly confined to the elderly and [[malnourish]]ed, are now common among HIV-infected young and [[middle-age]]d people, including well-educated members of the [[middle class]].<ref name="UNAIDS, 2000">UNAIDS, 2000</ref>

For example, in a study in [[Côte d'Ivoire]], HIV-[[seropositive]] individuals with [[pulmonary tuberculosis]] were 17 times more likely to die within six months than HIV-seronegative individuals with pulmonary tuberculosis.<ref name="Ackah, 1995">{{cite journal | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(95)90519-7 | last1 = Ackah | first1 = A.N. | last2 = Coulibaly | first2 = D. | last3 = Digbeu | first3 = H. | last4 = Diallo | first4 = K. | last5 = Vetter | first5 = K.M. | last6 = Coulibaly | first6 = I.M. | last7 = Greenberg | first7 = A.E. | last8 = De Cock | first8 = K.M. | year = 1995 | title = Response to treatment, mortality, and CD4 lymphocyte counts in HIV-infected persons with tuberculosis in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire | journal = Lancet | volume = 345 | issue = 8950| pages = 607–10 | pmid = 7898177 | s2cid = 19384981 }}</ref> In [[Malawi]], mortality over three years among children who had received recommended childhood [[immunization]]s and who survived the first year of life was 9.5 times higher among HIV-seropositive children than among HIV-seronegative children. The leading causes of death were wasting and respiratory conditions.<ref name="Taha, 1999">{{cite journal | doi = 10.1097/00006454-199908000-00007 | last1 = Taha | first1 = T.E. | last2 = Kumwenda | first2 = N.I. | last3 = Broadhead | first3 = R.L. | last4 = Hoover | first4 = D.R. | last5 = Graham | first5 = S.M. | last6 = Van Der | first6 = Hoven L. | last7 = Markakis | first7 = D. | last8 = Liomba | first8 = G.N. | last9 = Chiphangwi | first9 = J.D. | last10 = Miotti | first10 = Paolo G. | year = 1999 | title = Mortality after the first year of life among human immunodeficiency virus type 1-infected and uninfected children | journal = Pediatr. Infect. Dis. J. | volume = 18 | issue = 8| pages = 689–94 | pmid = 10462337 | display-authors = 9 }}</ref> Elsewhere in Africa, findings are similar.