Hi AJ, welcome back to the Sex Ed Sam Bot. Would you like to hear my introduction again, or continue where we left off last time? Just say INTRO or CONTINUE.

Great. I’ll do my best to answer your questions based on our informational archive.

Of course! I’ll walk you through the basics first, then we can take it from there.

Great! Let’s start with the acronym itself: HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Before treatments for HIV were developed, HIV would progress to AIDS, or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, which is fatal.