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HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus. The virus that causes AIDS. With modern medicine, an HIV+ diagnosis is no longer a death sentence. With treatment, people can live long, healthy lives and cannot transmit the virus (U=U).

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus; the virus that causes AIDS.

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