Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, life-threatening disease caused by a virus called human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The virus and the infection are known as HIV. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a term used to refer to the later stages of the infection.
Your body’s Immune System protects you from diseases. But when the HIV virus attacks your body’s Immune System it damages and/or destroys the Cells of your Immune System making you easily prone to various infections.
