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STAGES OF HIV Acute HIV Syndrome * First stage seroconversion * virus rapidly spreads to organs, especially the lymphoid tissues * HIV virus not very aggressive in causing diseases or severe symptoms Asymptomatic State * infection is latent * virus starts to grow and multiply in the lymph nodes Symptomatic Disease/AIDS * Viremia (spread of virus in the blood) * Loss of immune system, mainly due to infection of CD4+ T-Lymphocytes End stage Disease * immune system collapses * virus continues to slowly destroy the Immune System for up to 10 years * usually an opportunistic infection is the cause of death Without treatment, the average time from infection to AIDS is eight to eleven years.Without treatment, 78/100 percent of Hiv-infected people will develop AIDS within fifteen years of infection.

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