Why is hiv and aids labeled separately?

if you have cancer you have cancer if it progresses its latent or advanced cancer.Why is it when hiv advances its called aids

my question still hasn't been answered why isnt aids just called advanced hiv.im frustrated

HIV+ is just the presence of the virus in the body minus the major signs of suppressed immunity. Whereas, AIDS is a phase that's reached when the CD4+ (a type of white blood cells important in immunity) count goes below 200/microliter. It is at this stage that a person mainly starts suffering from various infections because of depressed immunity. Bye. Hope it helps. TC.

HIV is the virus that causes AIDs. A diagnosis of AIDs is based on a T-cell count, when the T-cell drop below 200 it is an AIDS diagnosis, or if there are a lot of different infections that won't go away. Hopefully this will help clear up the confusion.

Because HIV is a virus that leads to the condition known as AIDS. Though one causes the other, they are seperate.

Being HIV positive means that the virus is in your body. Having AIDS means the virus is winning, however, It does not mean the virus has won! If a person who is infected can keep the virus under control they are HIV positive. If the virus makes a substantial insult to a person's immune system, they have AIDS.

HIV is a virus-you can have it years and it stays dormant
AIDS is an auto-immune disease people do not die from aids they die from diseases they contract because their auto-immune system is compromised.

HIV:
Virus disabling immune system: either of two strains of a retrovirus, HIV-1 or HIV-2, that destroys the immune system鈥檚 helper T cells, the loss of which causes AIDS. Full form human immunodeficiency virus.

AIDS:
Immune system disease: a disease of the immune system caused by infection with the retrovirus HIV, which destroys certain white blood cells and is transmitted through blood or bodily secretions such as semen.
Patients lose the ability to fight infections, often dying from secondary causes such as pneumonia or Kaposi鈥檚 sarcoma.
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2 answer your question, i believe there is no reason why the doctor who discovered aids and HIV didn't just call aids an advanced HIV. well they are 2 different thing. but that is a very good question i just thing that the doctor well didn't think like us. it wold have made alot more since

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in humans,[1] and similar viruses in other species (SIV, FIV, etc.). The late stage of the condition leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors. Although treatments for AIDS and HIV exist to decelerate the virus's progression, there is currently no known cure. HIV, et al., are transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk.[2][3] This transmission can come in the form of anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.

In 1990, the World Health Organization (WHO) grouped these infections and conditions together by introducing a staging system for patients infected with HIV-1.[21] An update took place in September 2005. Most of these conditions are opportunistic infections that are easily treatable in healthy people.

Stage I: HIV infection is asymptomatic and not categorized as AIDS
Stage II: includes minor mucocutaneous manifestations and recurrent upper respiratory tract infections
Stage III: includes unexplained chronic diarrhea for longer than a month, severe bacterial infections and pulmonary tuberculosis
Stage IV: includes toxoplasmosis of the brain, candidiasis of the esophagus, trachea, bronchi or lungs and Kaposi's sarcoma; these diseases are indicators of AIDS.


In a nutshell, ALL aids stemed from an HIV infection, but NOT all HIV infections lead to AIDS.