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Patients with HIV have compromised immune systems. As a result, they are at a greater risk of getting sick or contracting illness causing organisms. The HIV suppresses the immune system from functioning optimally.

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They have a weakened immune system and are more susceptible to diseases that most people with healthy immune systems can fight back.

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Because HIV and AIDS are rare germs that cause rare things.

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Q: Why are individuals with HIV able to contract diseases that are rare to the rest of the population?
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