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Health Departments and Communities can create programs and policies that encourage and support HIV testing and getting everyone with HIV into medical care and prevention counseling/services.
Opportunistic infections are caused by germs that are around us all the time but which can normally be fought off by a healthy immune system. Once the immune system is sufficiently weakened, such infections will develop and produce any of a wide range of symptoms. Some of these signs of hiv can be very severe.
Many people with HIV do not know they are infected. In the United States, it is likely that 20% of HIV-positive individuals are unaware of their infection.
Even though the person has no symptoms, he or she is contagious and can pass HIV to others through the routes listed above.
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