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What is AIDS?
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AIDS
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and is caused by HIV.
Usually a person is diagnosed with AIDS when their T cell count, is less than 200 (or 14%), or when a person contracts one or more opportunistic infections. Opportunistic infections (OIs) are those that an average healthy person would be able to easily fight off, like a cold. But for an HIV positive person, with a weakened immune system, OIs can make them very ill - and even prove fatal. Some of the most common OIs are:
- PCP, a lung infection
- Kaposi's Sarcoma, a skin cancer
- Candida, a fungal infection
- TB
Some people die quite soon after developing AIDS while others go on to live for many years.
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