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Bookmark or Share- About HIV/AIDS | HIV Basics | HIV/AIDS | CDCPeople with AIDS have such badly damaged immune systems that they get an increasing number of severe illnesses, called opportunistic infections. People receive an AIDS diagnosis when their CD4 cell count drops below 200 cells/mm, or if they develop certain opportunistic infections. People with AIDS can have a high viral load and be very infectious.
- HIV/AIDS - World Health OrganizationAIDS is defined by the development of certain cancers, infections or other severe long-term clinical manifestations. Signs and symptoms The symptoms of HIV vary depending on the stage of infection.
- Financial Assistance for the purchase of hearing aidshearing aids and other devices for low income deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Clubs often recondition hearing aids and donate them to needy individuals. Below is a listing of the national offices for several service organizations. Start by contacting the national office and ask how to locate local clubs and available funding resources.
- AIDS and HIV - Discover the Causes, Symptoms, and TreatmentsWhat is AIDS? AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a disease caused by the HIV virus. In this condition, a person’s immune system becomes too weak to fight any kind of infection or disease. AIDS is usually the last stage of HIV infection; a stage where the body can no longer defend itself and thus spawns various diseases.
- What Are HIV and AIDS? | HIV.govWhat Is AIDS? AIDS is the late stage of HIV infection that occurs when the body’s immune system is badly damaged because of the virus. In the U.S., most people with HIV do not develop AIDS because taking HIV medicine every day as prescribed stops the progression of the disease. A person with HIV is considered to have progressed to AIDS when:
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