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AIDS

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This is what happens when HIV goes untreated and wrecks your immune system. Thanks to decades of activism (ACT-UP) and medical science, it's no longer the death sentence it was in the 80s and 90s.

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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; the advanced stage of HIV.

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