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The CDC as of 2002, 57 U.S. healthcare workers were known to have been infected with HIV occupationally. 26 of them went on to develop AIDS.
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First, do you understand what AIDS is? It is a list of a few dozen pre-existing diseases (pneumonia, cancer, wasting disease, etc.) that occur in the presence of HIV
antibodies . 26 people in 26 years could easily be explained by the natural occurrence of these diseases. 26 is a vanishingly small number.
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Yes I understand what AIDS is. Acquired Immunity Deficiency Syndrome, and it is a complication of HIV (Human Immuno Virus). People die from AIDS related illnesses, not AIDS itself. It's like the chances of you getting those diseases are normally 1 in 10,000 or 1 in 100,000 (I don't know) but if you have HIV, your chances are more like 1 in 3.
Of the 57 healthcare workers that were exposed to, and contracted HIV, 26 went on to develop AIDS.
"Why has no health care worker ever gotten AIDS from a needle stick but 1500/year get hepatitis?"
I don't think anyone gets AIDS from a needle stick. They get HIV. 26 have gone on to develop AIDS from HIV exposure at work. A little more than "no healthcare worker ever". But you are correct, you don't catch AIDS, you catch HIV and then may develop AIDS.
As for women with AIDS, according to data from 33 U.S. states, in 2004 there were 42,514 people who went on to develop AIDS from HIV, of which 27% were women. (From the CDC again).