The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a chronic, sometimes fatal disease (HIV). HIV impairs your body's capacity to fight infection and illness by destroying your immune system. HIV is a sexually transmitted illness that affects both men and women (STI). It can also be passed from mother to child during pregnancy, delivery, or breastfeeding by contact with contaminated blood. It might take years without medicine for HIV to damage your immune system to the point where you develop AIDS. Although there is no cure for HIV/AIDS, drugs can significantly decrease the disease's course. In many wealthy countries, these medications have lowered AIDS fatalities. Infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a group of diseases caused by the retrovirus human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Following the first infection, a person may suffer no symptoms or a brief period o...