What is the difference between AIDS and HIV ?
Hi There, This has actually been answered well by the above. Another way of saying it is that AIDS is the syndrome (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome); syndrome = a combination of signs and symptoms that indicate a particular disease and HIV is the etiological agent that causes it. AKA HIV can eventually cause you to get AIDS. Note I said eventually, and there are rare but few reported cases of HIV+ individuals that are infected but have never progressed to AIDS. To say that someone has AIDS, certain criteria must be met. One of the most important is CD4+ <200 (CD4+ cells are cells used by our immune system, also called T-helper lymphocytes). Other criteria are opportunistic infections. Some common ones are candidiasis (fungal infection), CMV (cytomegalovirus), TB (Tuberculosis), MAC (Mycobacterium Avium Complex...related to TB), toxoplasmosis (protozoan infection), disseminated histoplasmosis (another fungus), cryptococcus (yet another fungus), Pneumocystis jirovecii (formerly known
HIV is the virus that causes the disease AIDS. AIDS is the group of illnesses acquired when the immune system is unable to defend against infection. AIDS is the terminal stage of infection by the HIV. In the early stages of HIV infection, infected person look and feel totally well. Only when the immune system gets impaired do they begin to feel ill. The time between infection with HIV and becoming ill with AIDS may range from 2-10 years or even longer.
HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS. Being HIV-Positive simply means you have the HIV virus in your body. Over time, as virus propagates, it lessens your body’s ability to fight off disease. The mechanism for this is in the way it attacks specific cells of your immune system, including white blood cells. The higher the concentration of HIV in your blood, the worse off you are, generally speaking. Once it gets to the point where your immune system is severely damaged and has become remarkably ineffective, you become susceptible to many diseases that you normally would have been able to fight off without a problem. It’s now at this point in which your condition is considered AIDS. AIDS is the a symptom of the virus, so to speak. The symptom is that you can no longer fight off infection as well as you once could, if at all.
HIV is the virus that can lead to AIDS. HIV damages the immune system by killing the cells our bodies use to fight infection. (CD4 cells) Someone who has HIV may have no symptoms until the immune system is seriously damaged. Once the CD4 count drops to 200 or below, diagnosis changes from HIV to AIDS. As the CD4 cell count drops, the person becomes more and more vulnerable to all other infections, which become more difficult to fight off. HIV itself does not kill. Death occurs from other infections, a result of the body’s inability to fight them off. (“other infections” could range from the common cold to flu, pneumonia, TB, and many other infections) These days, with treatment, many people with HIV are able to live healthier, longer. However, not everyone responds the same way to the treatments or to the virus itself, and the treatments do have side effects.
hiv is the human immuni-deficiency virus, hiv is the virus u have to get hiv first it then leads to full blown aids, theres many medicines to help people with hiv from worsening and leading to aids Aids is auto immune deficiency syndrome, this is a collection of different conditions that are produced threw contracting hiv x
