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HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is a lot like other viruses, including those that cause the flu or common cold.

However, HIV is very different in that your body’s immune system cannot clear out the HIV virus, like it can with some other viruses.

Once you have HIV, you have it for life.

Listen in as Dr. Anjum Hasan, Summit Medical Group Travel Medicine physician, reviews the basics of HIV – transmission, signs and symptoms, treatment and prevention.