Folliculitis is not associated with AIDS. Many patients often ask whether the appearance of red dots on the body is a rash of the acute phase of AIDS, but it is not. In fact, folliculitis is different from the rash of the acute phase of AIDS in that folliculitis is raised and appears at the roots of the hair. The AIDS rash is completely different because the rash is scattered throughout the body and occurs in multiple areas. For general folliculitis is relatively limited and folliculitis can be completely cured with treatment. The rash of AIDS will gradually disappear without treatment in the acute stage, while the rash that appears in the advanced stage of AIDS requires antiviral treatment to disappear.