Anyone can contract HIV but no one should get AIDS

HIV can have various clinical manifestations and without treatment it can progress to AIDS and have severe complications. We have effective treatments against the infection and want to treat everyone with HIV before it progresses to AIDS. The premise for that is HIV testing. HIV infection should be on the differential when patients present with signs and symptoms not otherwise explained. We describe here two recent cases of AIDS in Icelandic women that did not have perceived risk factors resulting in a significant delay in HIV diagnosis leading to AIDS.