What are causes for AIDS?

It's actually Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It's a vague sounding term, but it's the name that has stuck since the early 1980s.

No, it refers exclusively to the particular immune deficiency illness caused by HIV infection. HIV has to be present (or assumed to be present) for AIDS to be diagnosed. There are other causes for immune deficiencies, but they aren't called AIDS.

Well AIDS causes your immune system to become weak so your body is unable to fight off illnesses. It continues to grow and move through out the body until something like a cold is got by the person with AIDS then the cold turns into pneumonia and it is not able to be cured or fought off by the body and the person dies. People have dies due to cancer, and all types of infections. There are other illnesses where the body works against itself and causes damage. One is Arthritis, rheumatoid. It causes the bodies immune system to fight against itself in the joints and so on. You can go here and look for other illnesses that effect the immune system.

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/hp.asp

AIDS stands for ACQUIRED Immunodeficiency Syndrome. You die from sometimes rare infectious diseases that you'd acquire from having a suppressed immune system. A normal and healthy immune system would be able to fight, for example pneumonias, rare cancers, even something as simple as a common cold, but DEFINITELY not for a person with AIDS. This is what ultimately leads to their demise.

Hi,

HIV is spread by unprotected penetrative sexual contact with an infected person. It can also be acquired when infected blood enters the persons’ blood by sharing needles or the transfusion of infected blood and organ transplants. Infection can also be transmitted from an infected mother to her child in the uterus, during delivery or while breastfeeding.

The virus is also found in smaller amounts in tears, saliva, brain, spinal fluid, urine, and faeces although contact with these bodily fluids is not likely to transmit the virus. Casual contact such as by shaking hands, social kisses, touching an infected person, touching something that the person has handled, using public toilets or telephones, or using swimming pools does NOT spread HIV. The available information also bears out that HIV is not spread by mosquito or other insect bites.

good question, i don't know. But i have heard that some people are genetically immune to aids because of the structure or shape of their DNA or something