Health Terms

a virus that attacks the body's immune system

Drugs that re injected into the veins

HIV infectuin cimbined with severe immune deficiency

a oeriod of months ot yeats during whivh the virius is present in the blood bur rhere are no symptims or signs of desease.

infected with HIV

A highly accurate test used to confirm the resulrs of a reactive ELISA

INfections and other diseases caused by organisms that do not usally produce illness in healthy people with unimpaired immune systems

A test that screens for the presence of HIV antibodies in the blood.