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Please help me to define HIV and AIDS, give its causes and add some illnesses associated with HIV and AIDS on your own thoughts or ideas. Thankyouuuu

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Answer: HIV is the virus that attacks the immune system and AIDS is when HIV is in a severe phase, causing big damage to the immune system.

Step-by-step explanation:

HIV: Known as the human immunodeficiency virus, it is the one that causes HIV infection.

AIDS: This disease is caused by HIV, and it is the most advanced stage of HIV.

It is important to explain that because a person has HIV it does not mean that they will contract the AIDS disease since to get to AIDS they have to be a person who did not take care of when they were diagnosed with HIV. The reasons why a person can contract the HIV virus are: having unprotected sex, since it is not known if either person is a carrier of the virus. Blood transfusions are also a means of spreading the disease and also injecting drugs and sharing needles. Some illnesses that a person with the HIV / AIDS virus can have are tuberculosis, pneumonia, and toxoplasmosis.

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