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• n  immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced

• In 1978, her daughter Julia was born with severe combined immunodeficiency, which required her to be kept in a completely sterile hospital environment--like the "boy in the bubble.
• The source of the woman's suffering: the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, virus.
• The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a pathogen so wily and protean that researchers rarely talk about curing infected patients, focusing instead on treatment and .

• immunocompetence

News & Articles

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• Nutra Pharma Announces Radio Campaign for the Marketing of Its All-Natural Pain Reliever, Nyloxin(TM)
  Nutra Pharma Corporation , a biotechnology company that is developing treatments for Multiple Sclerosis , Human Immunodeficiency Virus , Adrenomyeloneuropathy and Pain, announced today that New Vitality, ...
  June 20, 2013 - Marketwired via Yahoo! Finance
• Study details age disparities in HIV continuum of care
  Age disparities exist in the continuum of care for patients with the human immunodeficiency virus with people younger than 45 years less likely to be aware of their infection or to have a suppressed viral load, according to a report published online first by JAMA Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication.
  June 17, 2013 - EurekAlert!

Quotes

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• Kevin De Cock in United Press International
  Of the global total of 38.6 million persons living with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), approximately 6.8 million of these people in low and middle income countries require antiretroviral therapy,De Cock said at the 16th International...