Is it true that AIDS stands for \n                                 A.rse\n                                  I.nfected\n                                     D.ont\n                                       S.crew
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n. \nA severe immunological disorder caused by the retrovirus HIV, resulting in a defect in cell-mediated immune response that is manifested by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections and to certain rare cancers, especially Kaposi's sarcoma. It is transmitted primarily by exposure to contaminated body fluids, especially blood and semen.\n\nso no, it does not stand for what you said, although it almost works
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Apparently the human version of AIDS came from handling infected animals, though the infection doesn't have the same effect on the animals that it has on humans.
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AIDS is spread through the exchange of bodily fluid.  Man>woman, woman>man, man>man, woman>woman etc.....There is no preference of gender or number of partners. \nSex, needles, oral sex if there are open wounds on both accounts, kissing-only with open wounds on both accounts, transfusions, blood to blood contact or open wound contact with a person with AIDS and even a mother can give it to her child unfortunately.  :(...\nIt doesn't matter how many partners one sleeps with...it's a matter of if they are exposed to someone with the AIDS virus even once, they are vulnerable.  \n\nSo be careful!!  Use condoms!\npeace.
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Human immunodeficiency virus (commonly known as HIV, and formerly known as HTLV-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus) is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells. It also directly and indirectly destroys CD4+ T cells. As CD4+ T cells are required for the proper functioning of the immune system, when enough CD4+ T cells have been destroyed by HIV, the immune system functions poorly, leading to the syndrome known as AIDS. HIV also directly attacks organs, such as the kidneys, the heart and the brain leading to acute renal failure, cardiomyopathy, dementia and encephalopathy. Many of the problems faced by people infected with HIV result from failure of the immune system to protect from opportunistic infections and cancers.\n\nHIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid or breast milk. This transmission can come in the form of: penetrative (anal or vaginal) sex; oral sex; blood transfusion; contaminated needles; exchange between mother and infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding; or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.\n\nAIDS is thought to have originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century[1] and is now a pandemic. At the end of 2004, UNAIDS estimated that nearly 40 million people were currently living with HIV.[2] The World Health Organization estimated that the AIDS epidemic had claimed more than 3 million people and that 5 million people had acquired HIV in the same year. Currently it is estimated that 28 million people have died and that HIV is set to infect 90 million people in Africa, resulting in a minimum estimate of 18 million orphans in Africa alone.[2]
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Yeah there is a lot of debate on where it originally came from. This is all I could really find:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aids#Origin_of_HIV\n\n(I can't believe that person copy and pasted the whole article from Wikipedia!! lol)
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Arthritis does not have anything to w/ std or aids. Aids is an immune deficiency and std is a disease as well. Arthritis is not a disease, as in you can't catch it from someone else, it's a deterioration of the joints.
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how about:\nH.I.T.E.S\n?
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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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Wow some of these answers are scaring me.\n\nAIDS is caused by a VIRUS - HIV - not by people.  \n\nWhoever it was that said its been around for a long time had it right - and we won't ever know for sure how and when it started.\n\nYes, it was first identified as a "gay man's disease," but obviously, or I thought obviously, we had moved beyond that.  \n\nAnd if its "punishment," then how do you explain babies becoming infected, and the people that were infected early on from blood transfusions, etc?\n\nCome on people.  Get logical here.\n\nViruses aren't punishments.  Viruses and bacteria don't take personal inventories of those they infect.  They just biologically do their thing, and that is to make people sick.  \n\nHIV isn't a punishment anymore than the common cold or the flu is.
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By recognizing AIDS is a real danger, promoting "safe sex" and by "talking about AIDS and telling people that it is a real danger and threat to the human race!  Sports could play a big role in the fight against AIDS or any sexually transmitted disease, or life threatening disease, by being open and talking about it!
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HIV does not survive well outside of the human body. This really smells like an urban legend.
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Let's clarify a few things here...\n\nHIV = "Human Immunodeficiency Virus"\nAIDS = "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome"\n\nHIV is, as you say, a virus...on its own, it doesn't do much...  but it compromises your immune system, rendering you open to any number of infections and immune-disorder issues.  AIDS is not a "disease", it is a collection of effects of the lack of an immune response...  hence, it is called a "syndrome".\n\nYou don't "feel" an HIV infection.\nYou'll feel the effects of the various disorders which arise from it's impact on your immune system....  collectively known as AIDS.\nNo, you can't cure HIV, as yet, though research is proceeding.\nHIV doesn't become AIDS...  the HIV virus depresses your immune system and may place you in the condition known as AIDS.  \nOr, it may not.  With good management, many people manage not to succumb to AIDS, even though they are infected with HIV.
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I believe it is supposed to be O.T.R. which means "on the rag" which if you don't know is a euphemism for the female menstrual cycle.  If it actually was O.D.R., then I think they mean "on da rag," which is the same thing with the slang term "da" in place of "the."  I'm sure the transcripts are wrong though and it should be O.T.R.
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I saw on PBS on night a special on the plaques in England and some people carried genes to help prevent the disease and now they're saying people with those genes that survived the bubonic plaque can't get AIDS. This is because AIDS and the bubonic plaque attack the same way and the gene makes it so the disease can't enter the systems and ends up attacking it's self. Not sure if that was helpful or not. But i'm sure they could do something with the knoweledge.
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). ‘Acquired’ means not inherited. ‘Immune deficiency’ means a breakdown in the body’s immune system. ‘Syndrome’ refers to a range of diseases that may be associated with another disease.\n\nIn this case, diseases that take advantage of the body’s weakened immune system are used to define the onset of AIDS. In Australia, HIV is most commonly spread by sexual intercourse without a condom and through sharing needles, syringes and other injecting equipment.\n\nSymptoms\nSymptoms of HIV are common to a number of other illnesses. If you think you have been put at risk of getting HIV, or if you have any of the signs below (or a combination of them) for a month or longer, you should consult your doctor. Symptoms can include: \n\nFlu-like symptoms \nExtreme and constant tiredness \nFevers, chills and night sweats \nRapid weight loss for no known reason \nSwollen lymph glands in the neck, underarm or groin area \nWhite spots or unusual marks in the mouth \nSkin marks or bumps, either raised or flat, usually painless and purplish \nContinuous coughing or a dry cough \nDiarrhoea \nDecreased appetite.\nHow it is spread \nSomeone who has HIV may not have any symptoms, but they carry the virus and could pass it on through blood or body fluids. HIV can be spread in a number of ways, including: \nUnprotected vaginal or anal sex with someone who has HIV \nSharing injecting equipment and needles with someone who has HIV \nFrom a mother who has HIV to a child during pregnancy, birth or via breastfeeding \nUnprotected oral sex with someone who has HIV (this is less common).\nHIV can’t be spread by social contact\nThere is no evidence to suggest that HIV is spread by ordinary social or family contact such as hugging, shaking hands, sharing household items or through toilets seats, swimming pools or pets. HIV doesn’t live long outside of the body. It can be killed by ordinary household bleach, or soap and warm water.\n\nSafe sex explained\nSafe sex means sex where semen, vaginal secretions or blood are not exchanged between sexual partners. Some safe sexual activities include: \nMutual masturbation \nTouching \nCuddling \nBody-to-body rubbing \nErotic massage. \nCondoms \nUsing condoms properly during intercourse (anal and vaginal) will greatly reduce the risk of spreading HIV. Condoms must be used correctly and with plenty of lubricant. Water-based lubricant should be used, as other types of lubricants will cause condoms to break. Female condoms are also available and should also be used with lubricants. \n\nSafe sex can prevent infection\nHIV can be spread by unprotected anal or vaginal sex with someone who has HIV. Safe sex is recommended if either partner has HIV or if either partner is unsure of whether they have HIV. Other sexually transmissible infections (STIs) such as herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhoea can also be spread by unprotected sex. If either partner has an STI, or if either partner is unsure of whether they have an STI, safe sex is also recommended. HIV infection is more readily acquired or transmitted if either partner is infected with another STI.\n\nHIV and oral sex\nUnprotected oral sex is low risk for spreading HIV but using a condom or avoiding ejaculation into the mouth is recommended when either partner has ulcers or bleeding gums, or has recently brushed or flossed their teeth. Condom use may also prevent the spread of other STIs such as herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhoea. These STIs may be spread more easily by unprotected oral sex.\n\nHIV and deep kissing\nOnly very small amounts of HIV are found in the saliva of people who have HIV. For you to get HIV, a lot of saliva would need to get into your blood via ulcers or bleeding gums. Deep kissing is a low risk behaviour for spreading HIV.\n\nHIV and blood products\nSince May 1985, all blood donations in Australia have been tested for HIV. This means that blood transfusion
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You're right...The movie Forrest Gump did have AIDS in it--"Jenny", his love, got AIDS from her alternative lifestyle (unprotected sex, intervenous drug use). They don't say "AIDS" in the movie, but she describes the symptoms and the lack of any treatment, which is what AIDS treatments started with back in in the early '80s. Obviously there is no cure--yet. Many people, including some in the government, thought that AIDS was an affliction of the Gay Community and drug users and wasn't important for "normal," heterosexual people, that is, until the heterosexual community started developing the disease as well. Children developed AIDS from being born to HIV positive mothers who got the disease from their unfaithful husbands, young people contracted it from their dentists, etc. It is a horrible disease and brought a real halt to promiscuous behavior that had predominated in the 1960s and 1970s. There was quite a stigma about AIDS for many years and there was a real fear about "catching" it from casual contact with people. Television tried to deal with this with television movies, sitcoms, news broadcasts, 60 Minutes program...the list goes on and on. Mainstream movies about AIDS continue this tradition. When Liz Taylor comforted her gay friend, Rock Hudson, who was a dying of the diesase in 1985, I know many were shocked that she would put herself in such danger (she's still alive, as far as I know, 20+ years later). "Magic" Johnson, the basketball player, came out with the news he was HIV-positive and the media had a field-day with it--other BB players were concerned that he might have infected them by sweating on them. Princess Diana was quite instrumental in getting the issue of compassionate care of AIDS victims to the forefront. She too defied "common sense" and comforted AIDS patients by holding their hands and stroking their hair, etc. These images were broadcast worldwide. I remember as a teenager then thinking that she must be very brave. In effect, she was much more informed than the rest of us. My 2nd cousin died of AIDS. Hope I've helped...Good luck with your assignment!
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Actually, KS is one of the diseases that defines a case of AIDS. If you have KS, then chances are high you have full blown AIDS, so you need to see the doctor about your T-cell count.\n\nMedLine has some great info about KS\nhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/kaposissarcoma.html\n\nAny reputable AIDS advocacy organization or website will have more information on KS. But beware of who your sources are. Make sure they are REPUTABLE.