What is aids ?

Decreased immunity: Aids stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome. It is caused by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), which can be contracted through exchange of bodily fluids such as semen, vaginal secretions, blood, and breast milk. Hiv/aids causes a progressive decline in the function of the immune system, which leave the body susceptible to life-threatening infections.

HIV + illness: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the deadly clinical problem that occurs in advanced HIV infection. When the virus becomes active and suppresses the immune system sufficiently, patients get sick with unusual infections or cancers. When one of these unusual infections occurs in a person with hiv, or if the count of so-called t helper cells falls very low, that is the disease we call aids.

Advanced HIV infxn: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that causes progressive destruction of the immune system, which can lead to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids). As the immune system declines, a person can get one of 20+ opportunistic infections associated with aids. A person can also have aids if their CD4 or t-cell count (marker of immune function) is <200.

HIV disease: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) is a clinical diagnosis based on a patient suffering from a severely decreased immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). This virus affects the immune system by destroying a patient's t cells.

HIV related disease.: Aids is acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the end stage of a severe weakening of the immune system caused by hiv, or human immunodeficiency virus.

The HIV disease?: The HIV virus (it causes AIDS) attacks and destroys a critical white blood cell of the immune system: the "CD4+ T-helper" cell. With these cells knocked out, the body's immune system is crippled and left unable to fight off infections which would ordinarily be easily handled by a normal immune system. The patient has AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or acquired immune deficiency syndrome).

AIDS info: AIDS = acquired immune deficiency syndrome, caused by human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2 (HIV1, HIV2). Look it up online for more information.