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HIV fully known as a human immunodeficiency virus is a retrovirus which causes a disease called AIDS fully known as an acquired immune deficiency syndrome; a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and increasing recurrence of them.

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