What's the difference between HIV & AIDS ?

Question

Sorry, don't lay into me here - it always gets me pondering.

Answer 1

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. You can have the HIV virus yet show no symptoms of the AIDS disease.

Answer 2

Well, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus and AIDS (Acquired Immune deficiency Syndrome). I do not know much about it, but AIDS is after a person with HIV becomes ill with other conditions (eg. tuberculosis) and then has AIDS because any single condition that is contracted by a person who is HIV positive can set this into full blown AIDS and in turn kill the person because of immunity or lack there of.

Answer 3

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a virus that attacks the immune system and damages it. A damaged immune system cannot fight germs well.

There are many stages during the HIV infection. AIDS is an advanced HIV stage. AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. "Acquired" means that it is given by someone else as opposed to being something that just happens. "Immunodeficiency" means that the immune system is weak. "Syndrome" means a group of conditions.

AIDS is diagnosed when the immune system is weak, as shown by a CD4 count of less than 200 cells/milliliter, or by the presence of certain opportunistic infections (for example, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and fungal infection of the esophagus), tumors or wasting. AIDS is the condition that results from HIV after it has done significant damage to the immune system.

A person who is HIV positive (meaning a person who has HIV) does not necessarily have AIDS, but a person who has AIDS is HIV positive. If a person has been diagnosed with AIDS as some point in their lives, the diagnosis of AIDS as opposed to HIV positive alone will remain even if there is a significant improvement in their health status.

Answer 4

HIV havin the infection with the HIV virus and a CD4+ count of above 200. AIDS is the advancement of the desease with CD4+ count of less than 200 and presence of an oppotunistic infection such as TB or has lost 10% of ideal body mass, or having demintia with HIV or having developed a cancer with HIV

Answer 5

I learnt about this, i kinda forgot though. I think HIV is the virus, and Aids is when it has actually affected you, like the actual disease itself. I think HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus (i think) and Aids is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. That's what I can remember.

Answer 6

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),


Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).[

Answer 7

HIV is the virus that impairs your immune system, AIDS is the condition where your immune system is compromised. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. HIV attacks your body's ability to recognize infection. Once the immune system is compromised, an opportunistic infection, likely something living in you, that is normally in check, can severely weaken you or kill you.

Answer 8

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. The disease AIDS requires infection with the virus, and other certain opportunisti infectious diseases or CD4+ T cell counts below 200/uL. The full case definition was written in 1993, and can be found at http://www.cdc.gov/MMWR/preview/MMWRhtml/00018871.htm.

Answer 9

HIV is the Virus
Aids is the condition of you immune system breaking down

HIV causes AIDS

Answer 10

HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. You get this first, and then eventually it turns into AIDS, which stands for Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome.

Answer 11

HIV is the causative agent whereas AIDS is the consequence, there are somthing else that can cause AIDS like leukeamia. your picture indicates you might be a HIV positive human, because it's so weird, you biological age is about 12 and your mental age is about 7, see if i guess it right.