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HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Hence, HIV in the virus and AIDS is the disease that results from the virus.
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What is the difference between AIDS and HIV?
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.
Why is it important for the doctor to know the difference between Hiv and Aids?
The reason why the doctor needs to know the difference between AIDS and HIV is because HIV is the cause for AIDS.
What is the difference between AIDS and SCIDS?
scid is a genetic disorder while aids is caused by hiv virus
What percent of Americans who attract HIV will get the AIDS virus?
The difference between HIV and AIDS is a number. If you have the HIV virus, and your T-Cell count is below 200, then you are considered (from that point forward, regardless of your T-Cell count) an AIDS patient. That doesn't mean that everyone with HIV will end up with AIDS... but HIV and AIDS are the same thing; the difference is how much damage the HIV virus has done to your T-Cells.
What is UNAIDS?
not having aids/hiv+
What is one of the distinguishing characteristics between HIV and AIDS is?
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS
Can shingles be the cause of having aids?
No. HIV is the only cause of AIDS.
One of the distinguishing characteristics between HIV and AIDS is?
HIV is a virus. AIDS is a diagnosis. HIV is contagious and causes a person to develop AIDS. AIDS is not contagious and only occurs in people who are HIV+.
What is the solution of AIDS?
There is no cure for AIDS or HIV. You get HIV then develop AIDS. It's kind of like getting a cold then sneezing as a symptom where the cold is HIV and the sneezing is AIDS. You can not have AIDS but not having HIV. Using protection during sex, not sharing needles, and staying away from blood can lower your chance of getting HIV.
What's the cause of AIDS?
AIDS is caused by having unprotected sexual relations with a person who has HIV/AIDS.
What kind of AIDS is Kenya facing?
The bad kind. HIV/AIDS. Between 1,400,000 and 1,800,000 adults were living with HIV/AIDS by the end of 2007.
What is the difference between HIV-1 HIV-2?
Not much difference. They are both strains of the HIV virus and both can lead to AIDS and other opportunistic diseases. HIV-2 strain is found mostly in West Africa, with hardly any found in the US and other Western countries.
