AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Overview. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging your immune system, HIV interferes with your body’s ability to fight infection and disease.

Detailed explanation-2: -(uh-KWY-erd IH-myoo-noh-deh-FIH-shun-see SIN-drome) A disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). People with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome are at an increased risk for developing certain cancers and for infections that usually occur only in individuals with a weak immune system. Also called AIDS.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is spread by contact with certain bodily fluids of a person with HIV, most commonly during unprotected sex (sex without a condom or HIV medicine to prevent or treat HIV), or through sharing injection drug equipment. If left untreated, HIV can lead to the disease AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).

Detailed explanation-4: -As a result, different types of viral and bacterial pathogens can invade his/her body and different types of diseases and infections, affecting different body parts and organs can be developed. Hence, AIDS is not a single disease but a group of diseases and that’s why it is called a syndrome.

Detailed explanation-5: -AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is the name used to describe a number of potentially life-threatening infections and illnesses that happen when your immune system has been severely damaged by the HIV virus. While AIDS cannot be transmitted from 1 person to another, the HIV virus can.