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    What Is AIDS?: Human Immunodeficiency Virus

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    HIV attacks cells that help fight infection, making people vulnerable to other diseases. It is commonly spread through unprotected sex and sharing drug equipment. While HIV has no cure, medication can suppress it and prevent transmission, allowing people with HIV to live long, healthy lives. AIDS is the late stage of HIV that occurs when the immune system is severely damaged, leaving the body open to opportunistic infections.

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    HIV attacks cells that help fight infection, making people vulnerable to other diseases. It is commonly spread through unprotected sex and sharing drug equipment. While HIV has no cure, medication can suppress it and prevent transmission, allowing people with HIV to live long, healthy lives. AIDS is the late stage of HIV that occurs when the immune system is severely damaged, leaving the body open to opportunistic infections.

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    HIV attacks cells that help fight infection, making people vulnerable to other diseases. It is commonly spread through unprotected sex and sharing drug equipment. While HIV has no cure, medication can suppress it and prevent transmission, allowing people with HIV to live long, healthy lives. AIDS is the late stage of HIV that occurs when the immune system is severely damaged, leaving the body open to opportunistic infections.

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    HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks cells that help the body fight

    infection, making a person more vulnerable to other infections and diseases. It is spread by
    contact with certain bodily fluids of a person with HIV, most commonly during unprotected sex
    (sex without a condom or HIV medicine to prevent or treat HIV), or through sharing injection
    drug equipment.

    If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).

    The human body can’t get rid of HIV and no effective HIV cure exists. So, once you have HIV,
    you have it for life.

    However, by taking HIV medicine (called antiretroviral therapy or ART), people with HIV can live
    long and healthy lives and prevent transmitting HIV to their sexual partners. In addition, there
    are effective methods to prevent getting HIV through sex or drug use, including pre-exposure
    prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).

    First identified in 1981, HIV is the cause of one of humanity’s deadliest and most persistent
    epidemics.

    What 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:

     the number of their CD4 cells falls below 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood
    (200 cells/mm3). (In someone with a healthy immune system, CD4 counts are
    between 500 and 1,600 cells/mm3.) OR
     they develop one or more opportunistic infections regardless of their CD4
    count.

    Without HIV medicine, people with AIDS typically survive about 3 years. Once someone
    has a dangerous opportunistic illness, life expectancy without treatment falls to about
    1 year. HIV medicine can still help people at this stage of HIV infection, and it can even
    be lifesaving. But people who start ART soon after they get HIV experience more
    benefits—that’s why HIV testing is so important.

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