How many of us know that HIV and AIDs are not synonyms. But when we speak we try to use them as Synonyms. I agree that its purely due to ignorance that we use them.
Even till date I thought both mean the same. And thanks Manoj for helping me to come out of this Illusion.
The below are the facts relating to HIV and AIDS….
• “Human Immunodeficiency Virus”
• A specific type of virus (a retrovirus)
• HIV is the virus which can lead to AIDS.
• HIV reduces body's immunities so they have more difficulty fighting off diseases.
• The immune system can never fully get rid of HIV because the virus attacks the immune system itself--the very thing that would normally get rid of a virus
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• Disease limits the body’s ability to fight infection
• A person with AIDS has a very weak immune system
• AIDS is a syndrome, resulting from low immunity tolerance which is signified by the presence of specific health conditions called opportunistic infections (OI).
• These infections are caused by microbes such as viruses or bacteria that usually do not make healthy people sick. Some of these infections include Lymphoma (& other specific cancers), Candidiasis, recurrent Pneumonia, Dementia, Tuberculosis etc.
To make it Simple……HIV is the Cause and AIDS is the Effect.
Ps: This initiative is with regard to Project Chetana. The details of which can be found in the below post.
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