AIDS-associated
conditions include:
- Opportunistic infections by bacteria, fungi, and
viruses. Opportunistic infections are infections that are rarely seen in healthy people
but occur when a person's immune system is weakened.
- The development of certain cancers (including cervical
cancer and lymphomas).
- Certain autoimmune disorders.
Most AIDS-associated conditions are rarely serious in
healthy individuals. In people with AIDS, however, these infections are often severe and
sometimes
fatal because the immune system is so damaged by HIV
that the body cannot fight them off.