The relevance of HIV infection

Abstract

In the modern world for almost forty years there is a global threat, with which mankind faced at the end of XX century and continues to take the leading position - it is the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (hereinafter - HIV). HIV infection is an infectious anthroponotic chronic disease with contact transmission, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, slowly progressing and characterized by damage to the immune system with the development of fatal acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).