The nurse is teaching a class on HIV/AIDS in a local community setting. Which of the following are accurate descriptions of these conditions that could be included as teaching points?
A) The terms HIV and AIDS are synonymous.
B) AIDS is the virus responsible for causing HIV.
C) HIV is a retrovirus overtaking living cells to duplicate itself.
D) The only known cure for AIDS is HAART.
C
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HIV is a retrovirus, a virus that overtakes the biosynthesis of living cells to duplicate itself. HIV invades a normal cell and uses that cell's biomechanisms to reproduce new HIV cells. The terms HIV and AIDS are not synonymous. HIV is the virus responsible for causing AIDS, but the person who is HIV positive does not automatically have AIDS. HIV is not curable, it is only treatable.
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