Can a dermotoligest till if you have hiv by the sores on ur skin ?

Need labs: There are some skin conditions that occur in aids. Having the HIV virus though (which causes aids) can only be definatively diagnosed with a lab test/blood work. So if a derm suspected a pt had HIV from a presenting skin condition, and the other pieces of the history and physical warranted it, then a blood test would be hopefully ordered to asses for a clinical suspicion of hiv.

Sometimes: Some skin lesions tend to be associated with HIV (like kaposi's sarcoma;disseminated seborrheic dermatitis; hard-to-treat herpes; shingles; multiple mollusca contagiosa; fungal infections; warts) but may also be seen in hiv-negative people. Ks can occur in older jewish men; many babies have seb derm. People on immune suppressants for auto-immune ds can exhibit same lesions). Tests r most reliable.