what could be the signs or symptoms of Hiv /Aids?
99847
There are a lot of symptoms that can be associated with HIV and/or AIDS, but the only way to be completely sure is to get tested.
679045
Have a test done at a medical clinic.  There are a lot of clinics that will do them for free, such as Planned Parenthood or local health departments.  Many people with early HIV infection do not have symptoms.  No one who thinks they might have HIV should give blood or expose others to their bodily fluids until they know that they aren't infected.  Exposing other people to an infected person's bodily fluids could cause those others to become infected with HIV as well.
584802
Here is the CDC surveillance data. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/reports/2004report/default.htm\n\nBear in mind that AIDS and HIV are SEPARATE conditions. It's a lot of data, so sort through it carefully.
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Causes: Unprotected sex with someone who's HIV positive, Blood transfusion with HIV Positive blood, sharing drug needles with an HIV positive person.\n\nEffects: Potential for Serious illness, compromised immune system, death due to complications from such illnesses. Also, effects include shame, fear, isolation, depression, and hesitancy to have children for fear of passing on the disease.
105494
Actually, nothing happens to a person w/ HIV......  It's only when it turns into full-blown AIDS that the body's immune system is compromised, then the person could get sick and die from any one of a zillion diseases, because the body cannot fight them off.
88117
use condoms until you know from a blood test.You can't tell by looking at someone if they have the aids virus. They could look totaly healthy and be hiv positive.
131911
At first there may not be any symptoms at all. The virus can live in the body without showing any symptoms for up to 10 years untreated. Symptoms do not seriously begin to develop until the virus has moved into the AIDS stage, which is the final stage of HIV infection. Within this stage, symptoms include:\n\n Mild: fatigue, unexplained weight loss, mild fever, diarrhea, and sore throat.\n Severe: loss of appetite, skin diseases, night sweats, and deterioration of mucous membranes.\n\n The best bet is to get tested regularly if you engage in risky sexual activity, or use injection drugs.  If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact your local department of public health. Free testing is available, as well as risk reduction, and post-infection counseling.
6478
There is sometimes a flu-like illness when someone is infected, when they are going through what is called seroconversion, which is when the body is developing antibodies in response to the infection. A person can have virus in their body before there are enough antibodies to result in a positive test. Most of the time there are no symptoms at all.\n\nIf there is any chance of being infected, a person should get an HIV test. There are many clinics that will do this free, anonymously, and counseling and treatment are available.\n\nSomeone can be HIV positive and able to pass the infection to others for many years without having any symptoms.
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Symptoms of a disease appear after the incubation period and antibodies appear in the blood much later. You have to conduct the test periodically if the test is found to be negative.\nHIV/AIDS-Incubation Period: Some people develop symptoms shortly after being infected, but for many it takes more than ten years for symptoms to appear. \nNegative tests do not necessarily rule out HIV infection, because there is an interval (called the "window period") between HIV infection and the appearance of measurable anti-HIV antibodies. If a person is suspected of having acute or primary HIV infection, and of being in the "window period," a negative HIV ELISA and Western Blot will not rule out HIV infection. Additional testing for HIV viral load will need to be performed.\nThe hepatitis C virus is usually detectable in the blood within one to three weeks after infection, and antibodies to the virus are generally detectable within 3 to 12 weeks. Approximately 20-30% of persons infected with HCV clear the virus from their bodies during the acute phase as shown by normalization in liver function tests (LFTs) such as alanine transaminase (ALT) & aspartate transaminase (AST) normalization, as well as plasma HCV-RNA clearance (this is known as spontaneous viral clearance).\nPlease see the webpages for more details on HIV/AIDs and Hepatitis C.
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the symptoms of aids are frequent fever, diarrhoea about more than twice a week, and infection of various types. \n\nthe symptom of which you mentioned in the question is obviously not of aids. it can be of schyfilis of a chancre developing. but it csn be more of a muscular pain developed when you are trying to masturbbate. so wait for a wee, see if the pain resolves; and if it coes not then you must visit the doctor.
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The symptoms of AIDS are primarily the result of conditions that do not normally develop in individuals with healthy immune systems. Most of these conditions are infections caused by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that are normally controlled by the elements of the immune system that HIV damages. Opportunistic infections are common in people with AIDS [18]. Nearly every organ system is affected. People with AIDS also have an increased risk of developing various cancers such as Kaposi sarcoma, cervical cancer and cancers of the immune system known as lymphomas.\n\nAdditionally, people with AIDS often have systemic symptoms of infection like fevers, sweats (particularly at night), swollen glands, chills, weakness, and weight loss [19][20]. After the diagnosis of AIDS is made, the current average survival time with antiretroviral therapy is estimated to be now more than 5 years [21], but because new treatments continue to be developed and because HIV continues to evolve resistance to treatments, estimates of survival time are likely to continue to change. Without antiretroviral therapy, progression to death normally occurs within a year [8]. Most patients die from opportunistic infections or malignancies associated with the progressive failure of the immune system [22].\n\nThe rate of clinical disease progression varies widely between individuals and has been shown to be affected by many factors such as host susceptibility [9][10][13], health care and co-infections [8][22], and peculiarities of the viral strain [15][23][24]. Also, the specific opportunistic infections that AIDS patients develop depends in part on the prevalence of these infections in the geographic area in which the patient lives.
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If you have HIV in it's early stages, it's near impossible to detect without going t the doctor to get a blood teat. BUT if you have AIDS, it may be easier to detect. AIDS is the last stage of the HIV and is marked by repeated viruses and infections due to the weakening of our immune systems. But at the same time, ither diseases and viruses may result in susceptibility to infection of viruses. Blood tests are always the best choice in detection methods. Don't hesitate, it's your life and you make the calls.
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Most of early HIV is without symptoms, but some people can get a flu-like illness with fever, fatigue, sore throat, rash, swollen glands and general weakness. Some say it's like the worst flu of their life. But many people have no symptoms, so if someone has been exposed, the most important thing is to get tested.\n\nAn xray is the only way to detect pneumonia.\n\nHIV is a virus.  AIDS is a diagnosis of progressive HIV and there will always be a second illness; cancer, pneumonia, etc. in order to have an AIDS diagnosis.\n\nOne of my dear friends is HIV+.  I suspect her telling me she needs a liver transplant means she has progress to having an AIDS diagnosis.  She is 5'10" about 90 pounds.  Unprotrected sex after the divorce of her 1st husband :(
587551
first off i would like to say b4 u get AIDS u get HIV. u can have HIV for YEARS (ova a decade for some ppl) and the scary thing is HIV has NO SYMPTOMS. understand that clearly, the person will look and feel healthy but they are infectious, ie. during this asymtomatic phase they can pass on the virus. the HIV will develop into AIDS which can manifest in many ways.. loss of weight, repetitive infections (most common being THRUSH [vaginal and oral types]).\nthe reason is that when sumone has full blown AIDS they have a very weakened immune system and therefore are sitting ducks for infections. diseases u would ordinarily fight off with ease become life threatning. so as for symtoms, u will display the symptoms of the disease u have got at that moment. AIDS kills u because it renders u too weak to fight other diseases so AIDS patients will die because of TB, pneumonia and other opportunistic infections.\n\nHIV/AIDS IS A KILLER. for real. IT HAS NO CURE. the message of safe sex, EVERYTIME, is not there to bother its to protect. all it takes is one time without a rubber. remember u CANNOT TELL BY LOOKING if someone has HIV. and dont rely on jus asking and expecting an honest answer... ppl lie or they themselves may not know they have it... talk is cheap. i have personally seen AIDS patients, they die slowly. they end up being walking skeletons, its not pretty.\n\nfor anyone with misconceptions about HIV/AIDS, 1.get informed FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE for the cold facts\n2.condomise ALWAYS... be smart, stay safe...
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It depends on the disease. Some will show symptoms in a few days. Others it may take up to a month. In the case of HIV, it may take years to develop symptoms. The question I would need answered is how do you know they had an STD? Their STD or their symptoms will allow you to get a more specific answer to your question.
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As you may already know, AIDS is the disease that develops from the viral infection HIV.  All AIDS means is when the person's body falls victim to an everyday infection because of a weakened immune system.  The only sure way to test for HIV is to have an HIV antibody test...  :) hope this helps!
611565
please try to be more clear in your question... anyway if what you mean is immune deficiency syndrome...then i tell you that the most important symptom is recurrent infections.\nand i advise you to visit a doctor and ask him face to face.\ncause these immunodeficiencies come in wide varity of symptoms and signs.