Christine Johnson's 1996 article (see it here), with dozens of clinical-study footnotes, informs us that the test for HIV simply shows the presence of antibodies -- any antibodies. Any number of conditions, including pregnancy, the flu and malaria, can give you a positive HIV test. Therefore, as corroborated by biophysicist Eleni Papadopulos, PhD in this interview with Johnson, HIV is pretty much a ghost, a mirage, a red herring.
See the interview here.
CJ: Does HIV cause AIDS?
EPE: There is no proof that HIV causes AIDS.
CJ: Why not?
EPE: For many reasons, but most importantly, because there is no proof that HIV exists.
Read Dr. Nancy Banks' book AIDS, Opium, Diamonds & Empire to find out what AIDS really is.