HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) refers to a chronic and debilitating disease in which a person's immune system is severely weakened. MedlinePlus indicates that HIV's symptoms include fever, fatigue, headache, diarrhea, sore throat and swollen...
AIDS (autoimmune deficiency virus) refers to a chronic and potentially fatal disease in which the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks the immune system so that it can no longer effectively fight off infection. The Mayo Clinic says that...
AIDS, also known as acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is the end stage of an HIV infection. AIDS can be diagnosed based on the effects that it has on the immune system. The main ways in which AIDS is treated is by slowing the progression of the...
HIV, also known as human immunodeficiency virus, is an infection that, during its advance stages, can develop into to AIDS or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a disease that affects the body's cells and immune system. HIV is transmitted through...
Human immune deficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) continues to pose a challenge for treatment. According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAD), there are more than 1...
The World Health Organization (WHO) states that 33.4 million people around the world are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a sexually transmitted disease that severely weakens the patient's immune system. No cure exists for HIV...
AIDS, or Acquired Immune Deficiency Disorder, is the result of HIV infection. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention states that there are 1,106,400 people in the United States living with HIV infection. Without treatment, HIV infection...
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a chronic life-threatening condition. HIV damages the immune system, which makes the body susceptible to infections that it would normally...
The human immunodeficiency virus infection cripples the immune system of the body, leading to the development of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put the number of people living with...
The human immunodeficiency virus, HIV, infects many cells of the immune system eventually leading to the development of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS. There is no cure for AIDS; however anti-retroviral treatment markedly reduces the...
The human immunodeficiency virus or HIV is the virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS. The virus is transmitted primarily through sexual contact---vaginal, oral or anal---but it also may spread via shared syringe needles...
HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is transmitted mostly from sexual activity and blood, such as from unclean needles. It damages the immune system by attacking immune cells. The virus enters cells, divides, destroys the cells, re-enters the...
The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, destroys white blood cells of the immune system called CD4+ cells. This leaves the body unable to protect itself against other invading organisms. When the virus damages enough of the immune system to make...
The HIV virus that causes AIDS is a retrovirus, an RNA virus that uses the cell's machinery to transcribe itself into DNA and integrate itself into the genetic material of the cell before creating more RNA viral particles to send out and infect...
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a type of retrovirus that replaces normal cellular DNA with its own viral genetic material, causing progressive damage to the body's immune system. HIV infection can eventually lead to the life-threatening...
Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, causes slowly progressive destruction of the immune system. Late-stage HIV infection, or AIDS, is characterized by vulnerability to numerous types of infections. Antiviral drugs, known as...
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV. HIV infects many cells of the immune system resulting in decreased immune responses to infections and cancers. The Joint United Nations Programme on...
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, commonly known as AIDS, is a life-threatening disease in which the immune system slowly breaks down over time. AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. As of 2008, approximately 33.4 million...
Protease inhibitors (PI) are a class of medication developed to fight HIV infection. They work by blocking the protease enzyme, which results in copies of HIV that are unable to infect other cells. There are only a few FDA-approved PIs, all of...
