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- 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 a virus.
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.