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HIV means you're carrying the virus. AIDS means that it has overpowered your immune system and made you sick. With today's medicines people can carry the virus for several years before becoming ill from it.

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HIV is a lentivirus what that means is that it is a "slow virus", it attacks the immune system, because they take such long time to produce any advertences that affect the body.

HIV/AIDS are very dangerous they can kill you if you get them let me rephrase that they WILL kill you if you get them!!!\

How are they past?

1) by having sex with a person who has HIV/AIDS

2) if someone with HIV/AIDS bites you and their salaiva get into your blood stream.

3) If your mom has aids... (sorry) so will you so your out of luck!

4)by getting shots with shared needles (with a Pearson who has HIV/AIDS)

that's all i can think of but im sure u got good infoo

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HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.)

AIDS is a diagnosis that an HIV+ person receives from a medical provider when exhibiting signs of a severely weakened immune system as a result of HIV infection.

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