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Article: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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- West's Encyclopedia of American Law
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ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME
A disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that produces disorders and infections that can lead to death.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), a fatal disease that attacks the body's immune system making it una
ble to resist infection, is caused by the human immunodeficiency
What Causes AIDS
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and What Does Not?
Since the first case was identified in 1981, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) has grown into an epidemic that has taken approximately 500,000 lives in the United States alone. The Joint united nations Programme on HIV/AIDS estimates that at the end of 2002 there were 42 million people living with ...