HIV Infection is considered a chronic, life threatening infection caused by the HIV virus, or human immunodeficiency virus. This kind of virus damages and destroys the patient’s cells of the immune system and interferes with the body’s capability of fighting viruses, bacteria and fungi that can lead to the appearance of certain diseases. By affecting the patient’s immune system, the respective person becomes susceptible to several kinds of cancer types and infections that the body ought to be normally able to resist to. The most common are pneumonia and meningitis. In almost all the cases, the infection evolves to a more severe condition called acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
