What is the difference of hiv and aids?

Infection vs disease: Hiv = human immunodeficiency virus aids = acquired immunodeficiency syndrome . You get aids only if you were infected with hiv. However, there are other immunodeficiency syndromes that are rare and unassociated with hiv.

Course of disease: Hiv is virus causing aids. If blood tests are conclusive, you are considered HIV +. Aids is later stage with loss of t cells and evidence of immune compromised state with cluster of symptoms and diagnosis. Hiv+ does not have to evolve to aids if you get healthcare.

HIV versus AIDS: They are essentially the same. Hiv is the name of the virus and the illness. Human immunodeficiency virus causes the infection that attacks one's immune cells. The death of these cells, if untreated, lead to a weakening of one's defense against infection. If that weakness puts the patient at risk for death from these infections they then have aids.

HIV is the virus: that causes AIDS. Human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection destroys the immune system resulting in multiple infections and tumors. The full blown clinical picture with destroyed immune system is called Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome .(AIDS)