AIDS
Alternate Names : Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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AIDS Complications
When a patient is infected with HIV, the virus slowly begins to destroy that patient's immune system. How fast this occurs is different in each individual. Treatment with HAART can help slow and even halt the destruction of the immune system.
However, once the immune system is severely destroyed, that patient is said to have developed AIDS, and is now susceptible to infections and cancers that most healthy adults would not get.
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