What is HIV and AID?

Answer 1

Unfortunately all HIV positive people will eventually get AIDS, it's a matter of time. The HART therapy drugs (aka: drug cocktail) only extends the time frame. The HIV virus is a rapidly mutating virus which makes it very hard to develop an effective vaccine against. Once a person is infected the virus cannot be eradicated from the body because it hides in blood, cerebral spinal fluid, interstitial fluid almost anywhere. People who say the drugs have gotten rid of the virus are just kidding themselves. There is a detectability threshold where the ability to detect the virus stops. It doesn't mean the virus is gone just the test doesn't find it. People infected with HIV go longer before being diagnosed with AIDS and live longer after being diagnoses with AIDS but it is still a fatal disease without a cure.

Answer 2

HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

You can't have AIDS without having HIV first but HIV doesn't always turn into AIDS.

Answer 3

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS in some of the people infected. All HIV + ve people don't get AIDS.

Answer 4

HIV is the VIRUS that may/may not cause the symptoms of what we call AIDS.

Answer 5

human immuno deficency virus
acquired immune deficency syndrome