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HIV weakens the immune system, it makes an infected person very susceptible to various opportunistic diseases, cancers, and viruses, for example: tuberculosis, salmonella food poisoning, cytomegalovirus (can lead to blindness), candidiasis (also known as "thrush" ), toxoplasmosis passed by cats (can cause brain defects, blindness, and damage to the central nervous system), Kaposi's sarcoma (a tumor of the blood vessel walls), lymphoma, wasting syndrome and lastly dementia.

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