when you have AIDS, can you go back to HIV and then to AIDS again.  One of our instructors said you could but she is stupid sometimes.
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Basically your instructor is correct, but most experts do not classify the two that way. HIV is the term for the actual virus that causes immune deficiencies. As the virus (HIV) replicates, it kills off more and more T4 cells. Finally, there may come a time when a CD4 cell count will show less than 200cells/mm3. This is where the same virus becomes classified as AIDS and the body is VERY vulnerable and suseptiable to other severe diseases. With new medications though, most AIDS patients will get better on treatment and the CD4 cell count will increase again greater than 200cells/mm3. So some experts refer to this as HIV again, while others say that if it has EVER went below 200 the patient remains classified as an AIDS patient.
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any exchange of fluids is a gamble but usually a  sore or wound is necessary to get aids but if you go ask about the most recent test they have had and get tested for free at the city or county clinic and a another sure way to get aids is blood if one of you has a sore in the mouth or anus and exchages blood over the wound then its more likely to infect than saliva since salive is acidic and has some digestive emsymes
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Well yeah, neither is really desirable.  But AIDS is fatal... and pregnancy?  Temporary.  So I'd go with pregnancy, myself.
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There is no cure at this time for HIV.  The person can lead a relatively normal life, with the proper treatment.  Who knows, there may be a cure someday as well.
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I would say yes. You progess from HIV to AIDs at a point when your immune system becomes severely comprimised. For an erderly person, this point will arrive sooner due to them having a weaker immune system. HIV mainly targets T cells (but will have a go at any CD4 receptors) and so the T cell count is the one to look at. As for when - there is no way to say for sure. There are guideline figures, but they are only estimates. Check out the website in the sources list, then click on the virology banner, then pathogenisis of AIDs. This is my uni microbiology homepage, and is a good reliable source of information.
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No.\n\nAs other have said, HIV transmisison requires much more than "touching" a person with "full blown AIDS".  It requires the exchange of infected bodily fluids; blood, semen, vaginal excretions, breast milk, etc.  This isn't the Star Trek episode that depicted an illness that was transmitted though sweat.\n\nAlso, HIV lives for a very short time outside the body--mere seconds at most; not 24 hours.\n\nFinally, if merely touching someone with AIDS could transmit HIV many, many more people would have HIV.  More than likely, we all know someone with HIV or knows someone who knows someone or knows someone who knows someone who knows....  well, you get the idea....
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Now is the time to turn the rest of your life over to Christ. In doing so you will no longer fear death .So it will not matter if you have aids or not.
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I heard that on the radio today.  As I recall, a team of researchers in Gabon found this particualar strain of HIV in chimp droppings out in the bush.  Imagine going to West Africa to study chimp droppings.
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nothing can cure the HIV virus. it may aid in slowing down the symptoms. but cure it, no.
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Nope,\nYou can only get HIV through blood, including blood transfusion, and sex (anal, oral, and vaginal).  If you are a heroine user and you shoot up the drug through a needle, and you have HIV virus, and someone else uses that same needle they can also contract the virus as well.  Those are the only ways.
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AIDS is only transmittable through blood to blood or sexual contact.  No matter the age.  You cannot, under any circumstance, get AIDS from a bathroom.
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You know, I think the best way to answer that is to know someone going through it.  For instance, say your sister is your best friend in the world.  Everthing is fine until one day you get a call from her saying that she has be tested positive for HIV.  What's the first thing that will go through your mind?\n\nNow add the fact that the reason she has HIV is because she was in a collision a year or so prior and was injured. She needed a blood transfusion and showed no symptoms.  She and her wonderful husband decide to have a child and as a routine check finds out that she was HIV positive.  Now what do you think?\n\nWell, I think that if the person I've known all my life suddenly came down with a disease like cancer or had a heart attack, I wouldn't stay away from him or her, but try to understand them and help them if they need help.  I also imagine what it would be like not having them in my life just because I stayed away from them knowing they had heart disease.  \n\nYes, I know that things like HIV can be passed on. But seriously, how are they going to pass it on to me?  \n\nIn essence, I think that if someone has HIV, I should treat them as someone who doesn't, as long as I'm not planning on sleeping with them:)\n\nI hope that answered your question. :)
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what you plan on doing is a sin and if you truly beleive that God will give the sinners HIV and AIDS, then don't do it unless you want to join the peple you work with.
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only fluid transfer causes aids, i believe saliva doesn't count but dont quote me on that
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I know a sister who was HIV positive tested in three different hospital. During a deliverance crusade this sister was prayed for and God operated a miracle of divine healing on her.She went back to these hospital and was tested again and truely she was HIV negative. What a miracle God!. This sister went to the fourth hospital and truely she is healed.The proves are there. The doctors who made the test plus the papers.
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Yes, it's still possible that you could test positive.  And, it's also still possible that she could test positive in a later test if you are positive.  Seroconversion for HIV, the process of enough antibodies accumulating in the blood to allow for a reliable positive test result, can take six months.  So, if you already had it, and gave it to her somewhere over the past six months, she wouldn't necessarily test positive yet.
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On any single encounter with an infected partner, the risk is high, but not 100%. Multiple encounters increase the risk of transmission substantially.\n\nContrary to popular belief, HIV is actually quite difficult to catch. It is about 5000 times more difficult to contract than Hepatitis C for example (another sexually transmitted disease).\n\nYou should always use a condom if you want to avoid risk; you cannot rely on a person knowing their status. You don't know your status right now do you? And it takes several years for AIDs to develop, so often people feel and appear completely healthy while being infectious.\n\nThe chance of transmission varies with the time that the person has been infected. In the early stages they can be very infectious (before there are any signs). They wil become less infectious after a while and if they are on a therapy, they may reduce their viral load so as to be imperceptable. This doesn't mean you cannot catch it from them but the chances are reduced.\n\nThere is nothing you can do at this time except wait, and do not have unprotected sex with anyone else. Get your first test in three months time, and a further test after six months. If both are clear, you should be OK.