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.
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
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.
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Hence, HIV in the virus and AIDS is the disease that results from the virus.
AIDS is a syndrome. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
aids is an hiv: human immunodeficiency virus. and hiv is an std.
The HIV virus causes AIDS. HIV stand for Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
the name given to the AIDS virus is HIV.
HIV is a virus; AIDS is a disease.
The difference between HIV and AIDS is that HIV is the virus that causes the disease AIDS. You can be a carrier of the HIV virus and not contract the disease but you can infect others.
HIV is a virus.
HIV- Human Immunodeficiency Virus *HIV is not a pathogenic organism, but a virus. To be an organism it must be able to replicate on its own, which it cannot. It needs a host to do so.
HIV is the virus. AIDS is the disease caused by the virus. (So HIV is not actually a disease per se.) As an analogue - the H1N1 virus can cause the flu.
Correct...HIV can lead to AIDS and AIDS can only be caused be the HIV virus.
AIDS is caused by a virus called HIV- Human Immunodeficiency Virus.