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Progressive weight loss in people with HIV can be a sign of AIDS

Occasionally, a person with HIV who has not yet developed AIDS can experience serious weight loss, which is often defined as a loss of 10 percent of your total body fat or more. But doctors say such weight loss usually corresponds with severe immune deficiency, so a person who has lost that much weight may have progressed to AIDS.

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