Health Matters: Basic Knowledge About HIV vs AIDS

Dear Steemian,

I am planning to share with you guys every Monday some basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS and some challenges facing peoples with HIV/AIDS in the community.

I will start tonight by Introduce to us all what is HIV and AIDS:

INTRODUCTION TO HIV/AIDS

What is HIV?

Human: Infecting human beings

Immunodeficiency: Decrease or weakness in the body’s ability to fight off infections and illnesses

Virus: A pathogen having the ability to replicate only inside a living cell

What is AIDS?

Acquired: To come into possession of something new

Immune Deficiency: Decrease or weakness in the body’s ability to fight off infections and illnesses

Syndrome: A group of signs and symptoms that occur together and characterize a particular abnormality

AIDS is the final stage of the disease caused by infection with a type of virus called HIV.

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