How does HIV progress in to AIDS? What will be an ideal ...

[viki]

How does HIV progress in to AIDS?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Why is the HIV virus known as a retrovirus?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[bob]

Answer to Question 1

Answer: An HIV-positive person is diagnosed with AIDS when at least one opportunistic disease has developed or when that person's CD4 T cell count drops below 200 cells per microliter of blood.

Answer to Question 2

Answer: Because the HIV virus changes its RNA into a double strand of DNA, whereas, usually the reverse happens where DNA is changed to RNA.

[viki]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[connor417]

YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review