I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it yet..

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Oh no.  I'm saddened to read the news, to be honest I didn't know until I read it here first.

I was most certainly no fan of Erasure, but it's tragic to read that someone else has been diagnosed with this awful disease, which has claimed people like Kenny Everitt, Freddie Mercury and several other luminaries.

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CU_AMiGA wrote:
I did not know about this. :-( HIV normally does turn into Aids doesn't it?

Regards,

It depends.  Some people can live reasonably comfortably with HIV for years and years with few effects but with others it can turn into full blown AIDS fairly quickly.  

Modern drug treatments are prolonging the life expectancy of people with HIV, but like everything it will depend on the individual's body chemistry.