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HIV/AIDS
Infectious Diseases · Infectious & Parasitic
Severe
Severity
Common — millions living with HIV in India, among the largest affected populations globally
Prevalence
Yes
Contagious
Infectious Diseases
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus
- 2transmitted through unprotected sexual contact
- 3sharing of contaminated needles
- 4transfusion of infected blood
- 5and from mother to child during pregnancy
- 6childbirth
- 7or breastfeeding. The virus specifically targets and destroys CD4 immune cells over time.
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