Health and Disease

Running Head : HIV /AIDS

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Introduction

HIV /Aids scourge is one of the worst health nightmares in the world . HIV virus has overcome all medical ordeals and it remains a great threat to the existence of human race on earth . HIV /Aids have claimed millions of lives in the world and there are fears unless immediate measures are taken , the disease may claim many lives . While the origin of the disease remains a mystery , it is clear that virus is a catastrophe that the world had

to deal with taking into consideration the rate of infection especially in the developing world . Let us look into details of the virus

Difference between HIV and AIDS

HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus can be descried as lentivirus which means is a member of the retrovirus which leads to AIDS . HIV is a virus that is harbored by the human body fluid like blood , semen , vaginal flue , breast milk , and others where it exists as a free virus or within the body immune cells which are infected . HIV virus comes in HIV-1 and HIV-2 strains which are all known to compromise the human immune system (Guss , 1994

On the other hand , AIDS which stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is s condition that comes with progress of HIV virus in the body . This includes a number of symptoms and infections which are due to the damage of the immune system by HIV virus . Therefore we can say that there...