FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

Q: Why do people who are infected with HIV eventually die ?
A: When people are infected with HIV, they do not die of HIV or AIDS. These people die due to the effects that the HIV has on the body. With the immune system breaking down, the body becomes susceptible to many infections from the common cold to cancer. It is actually these particular infections and the body’s inability to fight the infections that cause these people to become ill, that they eventually die.