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Answer 1

Acquired Immune Deficiency syndrome.  It is caused by HIV.

Answer 2

AIDS = Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
HIV =Human immunodeficiency virus

HIV/AIDS has become a chronic rather than an acutely fatal disease in many areas of the world

it is caused due to a retrovirus called HIV. HIV causes AIDS and interferes with the body's ability to fight infections.
The virus can be transmitted through contact with infected blood, semen or vaginal fluids. Within a few weeks of HIV infection, flu-like symptoms such as fever, sore throat and fatigue can occur.its symptoms include weight loss, fever or night sweats, fatigue and recurrent infections.

People may experience:

Pain areas: in the abdomen

Pain circumstances: can occur while swallowing

Cough: can be dry

Whole body: fatigue, fever, loss of appetite, malaise, night sweats, or sweating

Gastrointestinal: nausea, persistent diarrhoea, vomiting, or watery diarrhoea

Mouth: ulcers or white tongue

Groin: sores or swelling

Throat: difficulty swallowing or soreness

Also common: opportunistic infection, headache, oral thrush, pneumonia, red blotches, severe unintentional weight loss, skin rash, or swollen lymph nodes

HIV IT IS A RETROVIRUS
A retrovirus is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA virus with a DNA intermediate and, as an obligate parasite, targets a host cell. The family Retroviridae includes such important human pathogens as human immunodeficiency virus and human Tlymphotropic virus , the causes of AIDS and adult T-cell leukemia respectively. Their RNA is reverse-transcribed into DNA, which is integrated into the host cell's genome and then undergoes the usual transcription and translation processes to express the genes carried by the virus .these virus
 do not kill the host cell at first because they can insert their genome into the host genome. This process is called reverse transcription and is done by the viral protein reverse transcriptase

TREATMENT
There is currently no cure or effective HIV vaccine. Treatment consists of highly active antiretroviral therapy which slows progression of the disease. As of 2010 more than 6.6 million people were taking them in low and middle income countries.Treatment also includes preventive and active treatment of opportunistic infections.

HAART
Current HAART options are combinations (or "cocktails") consisting of at least three medications belonging to at least two types, or "classes," of antiretroviral agents. Initially treatment is typically a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) plus twonucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors(NRTIs) Typical NRTIs include: zidovudine(AZT) or tenofovir (TDF) and lamivudine (3TC) oremtricitabine (FTC). Combinations of agents which include protease inhibitors (PI) are used if the above regimen loses effectiveness.

Common

More than 1 million cases per year (India)

Spreads by sexual contact

Treatment can help, but this condition can't be cured

Chronic: can last for years or be lifelong

Requires a medical diagnosis

Lab tests or imaging always required..