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I want to know what is the difference between hiv and aids and what are they?
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Virus vs syndrome: Hiv is the human immunodeficiency virus. Without diagnosis and treatment, this virus slowly destroys a person's cellular immune response, predisposing the patient to infections, certain malignant tumors, and dementia. Aids is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Aids is the group of illnesses caused by hiv. Hiv is the cause of the condition aids.
Answered 5/5/2013
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