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Contents * What is Aids * Causing * How long does HIV take to become AIDS * Types of HIV * Diagnoses * Transmission * Symptoms * Curing (Treatments) * Preventing of the disease

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  1. Contents * is Aids * Causing * How long does HIV take to become AIDS * Types of HIV * Diagnoses * Transmission * Symptoms * Curing (Treatments) * Preventing of the disease
  2. What is AIDS? AIDS : stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Acquired means you can get infected with it Immune Deficiency ,means a weakness in the body's system that fights diseases Syndrome means a group of health problems that make up a disease
  3. Causing AIDS is caused by a virus called HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. If any body get infected with HIV, his body will try to fight the infection. It will make "antibodies" which is special molecules to fight HIV
  4. How long does HIV take to become AIDS? Without drug treatment, HIV infection usually progresses to AIDS in an average of ten years, This average, though, is based on a person having a reasonable diet, Someone who is malnourished may well progress to AIDS and death more rapidly,
  5. Types of HIV There are two Types of HIV: mv-l and HIV-2 Both types are transmitted by sexual contact, through blood, and from mother to child, and they appear to cause clinically indistinguishable AIDS. It seems that HIV-2 is less easily transmitted, and the period between initial infection and illness is longer in the case of HIV-2 The relatively uncommon HIV-2 type is concentrated in West Africa and is rarely found elsewhere
  6. HIV Diagnosis A person's blood is tested for the disease-fighting proteins (antibodies) to HIV, Two types of antibody tests — ELISA and Western Blot - are used to identify HIV infection, Saliva and urine can also be tested for HIV, A person who is tested for HIV should also receive counselling from a trained HIV/AIDS specialist,
  7. Transmission Infected with HIV from anyone who's infected, even if they don't look sick and even if they haven't tested HIV-positive yet. The blood, vaginal fluid, semen, and breast milk of people infected with HIV has enough of the virus in it to infect other people. Most people get the HIV virus by: having sex with an infected person sharing a needle (shooting drugs) with someone who's infected being born when their mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected woman Getting a transfusion of infected blood used to be a way people got AIDS, but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and the risk is extremely low There are no documented cases of HIV being transmitted by tears or saliva, but it is possible to be infected with HIV through oral sex or in rare cases through deep kissing, especially if you have open sores in your mouth or bleeding gums
  8. Unprotected sexual intercourse Vertical transmission Injection drug use (rare: infected bloodlblood product) with an infected partner (from mother to child) • in utero • during deliyery • breastm ilk HIV INFECTION
  9. Symptoms unintentional weight loss chronic diarrhoea skin rashes, especially on your face, genitals or anus ulcers or infections in your mouth and genitals sweats, especially at night unusual tiredness nausea or loss of appetite swollen lymph glands in the neck, groin or armpits These symptoms can all be caused by conditions other than HIV, and do not mean you have AIDS
  10. HIV & AIDS PiEVENTION Avoid unprotected sex with people whose sexual history is not known to you Do not share needles or syringes Use condoms every time you have sex, no matter what kind of sex - spermicides can be used in addition to condoms in vaginal sex; anal sex, which causes bleeding, is very risky, as the virus is most easily spread through blood
  11. Cure for AIDS There is no cure for AIDS. There are drugs that can slow down the HIV virus, and slow down the damage to your immune system. There is no way to "clear" HIV from the body Other drugs can prevent or treat opportunistic infections (Ols). In most cases, these drugs work very well. The newer, stronger AR Vs have also helped reduce the rates of most Ols. A few Ols, however, are still very difficult to treat

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