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 Human immunodeficiency virus is just a slowly - replicating retrovirus. It causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) a condition in humans by which progressive failure of the defense mechanisms allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive. AIDS is the late stage of HIV infection, when a person's defense mechanisms is severely damaged and has difficulty fighting diseases and certain cancers. HIV tests are used to detect the current presence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that triggers acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), in serum, saliva or urine. Such tests let you know if you're contaminated with HIV or not. Based on a rough estimate given by the World Health Organisation (WHO), as of 2000, inadequate  hiv screening  had led to 1 million new HIV infections worldwide. 1 in 4 new HIV infections occurs in youth aged between 13-24 years, based on CDC. There are two forms of HIV virus, the HIV-1 and the HIV-2. Unle...