This is the process by which the membrane of the virus fuses with the membrane of the cell and that essentially dumps all the viral contents into the cytoplasm of our cell, as shown in this diagram. So we have the fusion of the membrane in tank of the virus and the membrane in blue of that helper T cell. And so this is what happens. We have the blue section and we have the fused pink section and the protein capsule along with the contents are now found inside the cytoplasm of our cell. So what happens next? Well, HIV is a type of virus known as a retrovirus.