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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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