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What is HIV?
It is the human immunodeficiency virus. Virus, because this organism is unable to reproduce on its own (it does when it invades human cells). Immunodeficiency is because the effect of HIV is to create a deficiency, an impediment to the proper functioning of the body’s immune system. And man, because the virus can only be contracted by humans.
HIV is the virus that, according to most researchers, causes AIDS (as referred to VHI as the AIDS virus). Others believe that this virus can cause AIDS only if given in combination with a cofactor, which is a virus or some other yet unidentified condition. Read the rest of this entry »
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AIDS is a condition caused by a virus called HIV (HIV) which is attacking the body’s immune system, which serves as a monitoring force the body to attack any infection or a virus.
So when the virus that attacks the immune system, the human body loses this protection he enjoyed and so can infect the body with many viruses and cancers easily.
The infections called opportunistic infections, because they exploit the opportunity to hit the immune system is weak. We can say that a person died of AIDS, he died as a result of damage to any viruses or cancers for the work of the immune system which protects the body as a result of attack of the virus (HIV ) the immune system.