HIV

HIV

Infects and destroys immune cells, as the infection progresses, people lose their ability to fight off disease

This majes immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) that is the advanced stages of HIV infection, when a person’s immune system is severely damaged

Recognized in humans in the 1980s

HIV can permanently incorporate its genome into that of a host cell and the infection lasts a lifetime

There is no vaccine against HIV

Although numerous drugs can keep infection at bay and hinder disease progression