Commons:Categories for discussion/2026/01/Category:Deaths from AIDS
Moving to CfD from a VP comment. The style guidelines for HIV/AIDS-related content and information on English Wikipedia and other Wikis generally do not call for attributing HIV/AIDS-related deaths directly as "from AIDS". Most people with HIV/AIDS who die as a result of their condition die from infections or illnesses that spread more rapidly and intensely because of the person's weakened immune system. The general medical style for this situation is "died from AIDS-related complications/illness", if indeed that is what led to their death. There are a range of other options for this category that are more accurate: "Deaths from AIDS-related illness", "Deaths from AIDS-related complications", "AIDS-related deaths", "HIV/AIDS-related deaths", and probably a few other iterations as well. 19h00s (talk) 14:53, 23 January 2026 (UTC)
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Comment note that this may be similar or the same for various other causes (not actual causes but causal factors or co-causes) in Category:Deaths by cause/Category:Dead people by manner of death. What you said does make sense. Prototyperspective (talk) 16:15, 23 January 2026 (UTC)