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== Disease and treatment overview == HIV attacks [[CD4]] cells ([[T helper cell|T helper cells]]) in the [[immune system]]; if untreated this reduces the body's ability to fight off [[infection]] as well as infection-related [[Cancer|cancers]].<ref name=":0" /> The appearance of such [[Opportunistic infection|opportunistic infections]] or cancers indicate HIV has advanced to AIDS.<ref name=":0" /> However, a combination of multiple [[antiretroviral]] drugs, known as highly-active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), introduced in the mid-1990s, can effectively control HIV.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/history/hiv-and-aids-timeline | title = A Timeline of HIV and AIDS | date = 2016-05-11 | website = HIV.gov|language=en|access-date=2019-04-21}}</ref> Taken as prescribed, HAART can reduce an HIV patient's [[viral load]] (amount of HIV in their blood) to the point of being undetectable, allowing them to live in good health and have effectively no risk of transmitting the virus so long as the virus stays at undetectable levels. If HIV is diagnosed and treated before the disease is advanced, someone living with the illness can have nearly the same [[life expectancy]] as a person without HIV.<ref name=":0" />
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