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HIV Information Guide


What is HIV?

Alternative Name:
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

HIV infection is a viral infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that gradually destroys the immune system, resulting in infections that are hard for the body to fight.

  
HIV Information Guide
What is HIV?
What Causes HIV?
What are the Symptoms of HIV?
How is HIV Treated?
How Can HIV be Prevented?
 

Asymptomatic HIV infection is a variable phase during chronic viral infection with HIV characterized by the absence of clinical symptoms of HIV infection.

Early symptomatic HIV infection is the stage of viral infection caused by HIV where symptoms have begun to manifest, but before the development of AIDS (which involves life-threatening infections).

 

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