Jean-Jacques, a citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo, explains what life is like with AIDS in his country. In 1981 the World Health Organization recognized AIDS/HIV and World AIDS Day recognizes that milestone on December 1st every year.
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (slowly replicating 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.
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