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Hiv

HIV (human immunodeficiency infection) is an infection that assaults cells that help the body battle contamination, making an individual increasingly defenseless against different diseases and maladies. It is spread by contact with certain organic liquids of an individual with HIV, most generally during unprotected (sex without a condom or HIV medication to forestall or treat Whenever left untreated, HIV can prompt the ailment AIDS (gained immunodeficiency syndrome).The human body can't dispose of HIV and no powerful HIV fix exists. In this way, when you have HIV, you have it forever. In any case, by taking HIV medication (called antiretroviral treatment or ART), individuals with HIV can live long and solid lives and forestall transmitting HIV to their sexual accomplices. Also, there are successful techniques to forestall getting HIV through sex or medication use, including pre-introduction prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-presentation prophylaxis (PEP).First distinguished in 1981, HIV is the reason for one of humankind's deadliest and most tenacious scourges.

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