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I think it is because HIV is a retro virus, it needs to invade a cell and insert itself it's DNA into the cell's genome in order to subvert it's function to produce more copies of itself.

The body's immune response is to wrongly start to attack itself and let ordinary infections that are normally stamped on to run rampant. I am no expert but this is my layman's attempt to explain how this virus has such a devastating effect on the body's sophisticated defences.

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