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7               Kind of injury, disease or death to which this Statement of Principles relates
(1)          This Statement of Principles is about human immunodeficiency virus infection and death from human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Meaning of human immunodeficiency virus infection
(2)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, human immunodeficiency virus infection means an infection that is caused by one of the human retroviruses, human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV‑1) or human immunodeficiency virus-2 (HIV‑2).
(3)          While human immunodeficiency virus infection attracts ICD‑10‑AM code B20, B21, B22, B23, B24 or Z21, in applying this Statement of Principles the meaning of human immunodeficiency virus infection is that given in subsection (2).
(4)          For subsection (3), a reference to an ICD-10-AM code is a reference to the code assigned to a particular kind of injury or disease in The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification (ICD-10-AM), Tenth Edition, effective date of 1 July 2017, copyrighted by the Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, ISBN 978-1-76007-296-4.
Death from human immunodeficiency virus infection
(5)          For the purposes of this Statement of Principles, human immunodeficiency virus infection, in relation to a person, includes death from a terminal event or condition that was contributed to by the person's human immunodeficiency virus infection.
Note: terminal event is defined in the Schedule 1 – Dictionary.