But using the Bangui definition, the '85 definition of AIDS in Africa, it doesn't even require HIV as part of the definition, because they can't afford to do the test anyway, and the test is totally unuseable in Africa because of the false positives with hepatitis B, malaria, tuberculosis, which are endemic of sub-Saharran Africa. They use clinical symptoms. Think about it. New Guinea and I had all of those. And tuberculosis, too.
Tuberculosis is worldwide.
Where you have poverty you have tuberculosis, including the United States and Europe. It's a disease of poverty, brought on by malnutrition. The world's leading cause of immune depression is malnutrition, which is typically due to poverty. One of the symptoms of TB is a persistant cough. Regular TB which has been endemic there for how long is now called AIDS in Africa.