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HIV/AIDS

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HIV/AIDS
 

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is an organism known as a retrovirus. Like any virus, HIV must use the cells of another organism – its host – to survive and reproduce. HIV is adapted to using the cells of the human immune system.
 

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AIDS uses the complex machinery of the T helper cells in the human immune system to initiate its harmful replication cycle


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