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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is a disease caused by a virus called HIV, which attacks and destroys body’s immune defences, which lose their ability to counteract the occurrence of diseases and infections. The virus is transmitted through blood, unprotected sex and from mother to foetus; it is not transmitted through normal interacting.

Those who have contracted the virus may be asymptomatic for a long time Therefore, if there is any doubt to have suffered contagion, it is important to be tested for HIV by going to a public medical facility also without the physician’s request. If the test turns out to be positive, it means that HIV antibodies are in the blood: then, the person is HIV-positive. Otherwise, six months after the risky sexual behaviour, there is no contagion.

The infection is controllable and treatable thanks to important new medicines, which can almost reset the multiplication of the virus, even if not eliminate it altogether.