Autoimmune disease is when the body defense system thinks that a part of the body is foreign and attacks it - causing specific symptoms. Low or poor response to an external threat eg HIV triggers a normal response against it but in people with a weakness in the immune system causes the disease/ let it progress. So they are two different things.
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