Thursday, May 23, 2013

Difference Between HIV and AIDS


HIV is the virus which attacks the T-cells in the immune system. AIDS is the syndrome which appears in advanced stages of HIV infection. HIV is a virus. AIDS is a medical condition.

HIV infection causes AIDS to develop. However, it is possible to be infected with HIV without developing AIDS. Without treatment, the HIV infection is allowed to progress and eventually it will develop into AIDS in the vast majority of cases.

HIV testing can identify infection in the early stages. This allows the patient to use prophylactic (preventive) drugs which will slow the rate at which the virus replicates, delaying the onset of AIDS.

AIDS patients still have the HIV virus and are still infectious. Someone with AIDS can pass HIV to someone else.
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  1. AnonymousJune 28, 2013 at 12:36 PM

    Thanks a lot for covering this topic in your blog, Grina!

    We have stumbled across it during our research on our video blog yesterday on the difference of HIV and AIDS in which we interview HIV medicine legend Dr. William Owen (http://bit.ly/TestingDay)

    We should do a joint blog post together!

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