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Sexually Transmitted Diseases/Infections chronic and clinically latent illness. Without treatment, this illness eventually progresses to a symptomatic, life-threatening immunodeficiency disease known as AIDS. HIV damages a person’s body by destroying specific blood cells, called CD4+ T cells, which are crucial to helping the HIV is spread primarily by unprotected sex or by shariequipment used to inject illicit th HIV do not have any symptoms at all for 10 years or cted is to test them for HIV infection. Reactive screening tests must be confirmed by a supplemental antibody test. (i.e., test. (i.e., ence assay [IFA]) or virologic test (i.e., the HIV-1 RNA assay). A confirmed positive antibody test result indicates that a person to others. HIV antibody is detectable in at least 95 percent of patients within three months after infection. Intervention Specialists (DIS). Follow-up must For more information: CDC HIV/AIDS Basics (Q&A), CDC STD Treatment Guidelines 2010 – HIV Infection: Detection, Counseling, www.cdc.gov/std/treat NC Sexually Transmitted Diseases Public Health Program Manual/Information Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection ry 2011