Also known as: HIV-
HIV has various meanings in the Nursing category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of HIV in Nursing.
Amusing alternative interpretation contrasting with the seriousness of the more usual meaning of Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
NursingThe human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS),a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype.
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