What is the Difference Between HIV and AIDS?

What is the Difference Between HIV and AIDS?

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.

H	-	Human: because this virus can only infect human beings.
I	-	Immuno-deficiency: because the effect of the virus is to create a deficiency, a failure to work properly, within the body’s immune system.
V	-	Virus: because this organism is a virus, which means one of its characteristics is that it is incapable of reproducing by itself. It reproduces by taking over the machinery of the human cell.
A	-	Acquired: because it’s a condition one must acquire or get infected with; not something transmitted through the genes
I	-	Immune: because it affects the body’s immune system, the part of the body which usually works to fight off germs such as bacteria and viruses
D	-	Deficiency: because it makes the immune system deficient (makes it not work properly)
S	-	Syndrome: because someone with AIDS may experience a wide range of different diseases and opportunistic infections.