2. What is HIV?
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H- Human
I- immunodeficiency
V- Virus
HIV is the infection that causes AIDS.
HIV is the virus which attacks the T-cells in the immune system.
34 million people live with HIV worldwide.
3.34 million children are living with HIV
HIV is the world’s leading infectious killer
5. Treatments
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There is no cure but there is
treatments
Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase
inhibitors
Nucleoside reverse transcriptase
inhibitors
Protease inhibitors
