How is Primary Immune Deficiency disease different than AIDS?
AIDS is short for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Acquired means that the disease cannot be inherited. HIV, the virus that is responsible for causing AIDS, can be passed from an infected person to an uninfected person through certain body fluids. Only when a person becomes infected with this virus is the immune system damaged.1 Primary Immunodeficiency is different from AIDS because it is a genetic disease that is present from birth although symptoms may develop later in life. It is not transferred from one person to another.
