How are HIV and AIDS related?!


Question: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the body's immune system, multiplying and spreading from cell to cell at incredible speed, damaging and destroying cells. At first, the immune system fights back by producing new cells, but eventually, HIV causes so much damage that the immune system can no longer keep up. When this happens, T-cells drop below 200 and AIDS develops.


Answers: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the body's immune system, multiplying and spreading from cell to cell at incredible speed, damaging and destroying cells. At first, the immune system fights back by producing new cells, but eventually, HIV causes so much damage that the immune system can no longer keep up. When this happens, T-cells drop below 200 and AIDS develops.

HIV is the virus which causes AIDS.

HIV, which is a virus, when active and not enough are suppressed will compromise your immune system, hence becoming the condition AIDS. After your immune system has been compromised, a secondary infection (any infection) will kill you since you have no defense to fight disease. Therefore, AIDS doesn't kill you directly, but disables you from fighting another infection, which will kill you. And note that just because you have HIV does not necessarily mean you have or will have AIDS. As long as the virus is in a "dormant" or "controlled" state, you do not have AIDS (ex. Magic Johnson, or people who are "carriers" of HIV, but do not have the disease).

HIV is the abbreviation for the virus that causes AIDS Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. You can be HIV positive (have the virus in your blood) and not get AIDS until years later.

HIV causes AIDS by destroys a certain kind of blood cell (CD4+ T cells) which is crucial to the normal function of the human immune system. In fact, loss of these cells in people with HIV is an extremely powerful predictor of the development of AIDS. Studies of thousands of people have revealed that most people infected with HIV carry the virus for years before enough damage is done to the immune system for AIDS to develop. However, sensitive tests have shown a strong connection between the amount of HIV in the blood and the decline in CD4+ T cells and the development of AIDS. Reducing the amount of virus in the body with anti-retroviral therapies can dramatically slow the destruction of a person



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