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Bookmark or Share- HIV/AIDS - Symptoms and causes - Mayo ClinicAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging your immune system, HIV interferes with your body's ability to fight infection and disease. HIV is a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
- HIV/AIDS Symptoms, Stages, & Early Warning SignsAIDS is the advanced stage of HIV infection. This is usually when your CD4 T-cell number drops below 200 and your immune system is badly damaged. You might get an opportunistic infection, an...
- History of AIDS - HISTORYIn the 1980s and early 1990s, the outbreak of HIV and AIDS swept across the United States and rest of the world, though the disease originated decades earlier. Today, more than 70 million people...
- AIDS and HIV Health Center - WebMDHuman immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV weakens a person's ability to fight infections. It is mostly contracted through unprotected sex or needle sharing. Signs may...
- AIDS | Definition, Diagnosis, Treatment, & Facts | BritannicaAIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), transmissible disease of the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV slowly attacks and destroys the immune system, leaving an individual vulnerable to a variety of other infections and certain malignancies that eventually cause death.
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