HIV and AIDS: Facts & Misconceptions You Should Know | Mass General Brigham

Are HIV and AIDS the same thing? If you have HIV, will you also have AIDS? What is the life expectancy for someone with AIDS? Eric Rosenberg, M.D., Infectious Disease Physician and Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School clears up some common misconceptions about HIV and AIDS.

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0:00 - Intro
0:32 - Are HIV and AIDS the same?
0:55 - If you have HIV, will you also have AIDS?
2:32 - Are there symptoms of HIV until I have AIDS?
3:20 - Is HIV forever, but AIDS is not?
4:13 - Do you have to take a lot of pills for HIV/AIDS?
4:43 - Does treatment cause side effects from medications?
5:20 - Life expectancy with AIDS.

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