Taken From: http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/murphy/HIV/HIVvsAIDS.html
NOTE:
None of the information contained on this page is written by a doctor. It
is written from research and personal experience.
ALWAYS talk to your doctor when any STD is involved with your and your partner.
What what is the difference between being HIV positive and having AIDS?
A person is said to be HIV positive if that person is infected with the virus
HIV. The person may not be sick at all. A person is said to have AIDS if the
person is infected with HIV and has certain signs and symptoms of the disease.
In short, HIV is the virus, and AIDS is the disease that it causes.
Most literature makes a distinction between people who are infected with HIV but are still healthy, and those who have the virus and are sick with AIDS. This may lead readers to think that these are two different diseases, but this is not true. They are simply two different stages of the same disease. An infected person may seem very healthy at first. Without treatment, most infected people start to get sick a few years after first becoming infected.
Any person who has HIV, whether the person is sick with AIDS or not, should be under the care of a qualified physician. Now, more than ever, there are treatments that can delay the onset of the disease. The earlier one seeks treatment, the better one's chances are likely to be.
Any person who has HIV, whether the person is sick with AIDS or not, can pass the virus on to other people. This means you can get AIDS from a person who looks very healthy, if the person is infected with HIV and if you have sexual or blood contact with the person. Avoiding people who "look sick" is no guarantee.
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