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What Is AIDS?

AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

It causes the immune system to be suppressed, leaving it unable to protect the body against opportunistic infections and tumors that would otherwise be kept under control.

(China.org.cn November 30, 2004)

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