Medications can successfully treat many of the symptoms of early symptomatic HIV infection. It is unknown whether or not having the signs of hiv is related in any way to the future course of HIV disease. Regardless, infected people will become symptom-free (asymptomatic) after this phase of primary infection.
AIDS is the later stage of HIV infection, when the body begins losing its ability to fight infections. Once the CD4 cell count falls low enough, an infected person is said to have AIDS. Sometimes, the diagnosis of AIDS is made because the person has unusual infections or cancers that show how weak the immune system is.
Prevention counseling works, yet only 45% of people with HIV in care received prevention counseling in the previous 12 months on how to protect themselves and prevent passing the virus to others.

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