what is the caues of HIV/AIDS?
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HIV cannot live long outside the human body. It is spread by contact with infected body fluids: semen, vaginal fluids, breastmilk, & blood. It is detectable in the urine and saliva, but hasn't been known to be spread through these two routes.\n\nOnce the virus enters the body it binds to a receptor on a T-lymphocyte. That's a type of white blood cell: part of the immune system. HIV is a retrovirus. It injects it's RNA into the T-cell. An enzyme converts the single strand of RNA into a double DNA strand, similar to the type of DNA you already have but with the virus's info on it. (It's a bit more complicated than that.) \n\nThen the viral DNA joins with the rest of the cell's DNA and doesn't do much until it receives a signal. Then it creates more RNA copies that allow it to use the body's cellular machinery to create viral proteins that will be assembled together into new HIV viruses. The new viruses move to the edge of the cell, bud out of it and move on to infect other cells.\n\nThe T-cells that the HIV virus infects aren't able to preform their usual function of telling the other immune system cells when and what to do because their cellular machinery is too busy making viral proteins. This causes the body to be susceptible to all sorts of other illnesses that it wouldn't usually be susceptible to. These other illnesses are usually what kills AIDS patients.\nThe work to find a cure for HIV/AIDS seems to focus on two areas. The first is preventing the HIV from ever attaching to the T-cells in the first place (preventing transmission). The second is to prevent the HIV from replicating inside cells it has already infection (for current patients). \n\nHope that helps a bit.
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HIV/AIDS affects all people in the same way, in all races, greed and colors!\n\nIt is fatal to all, regardless of their origins!
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Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) is a retrovirus that is found, in numerous strains, in primates; the strains infecting humans are HIV-1 and HIV-2, the viruses that cause AIDS\n\nHuman immunodeficiency virus (commonly known as HIV, and formerly known as HTLV-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus) is a retrovirus that is the cause of the disease known as AIDS, or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, a syndrome where the immune system begins to fail, leading to many life-threatening opportunistic infections.
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You can find a complete answer to your question at:\n\nwww.aids.about.com
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The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which causes AIDS is transmitted through body fluids in particular blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk. Transmission of HIV takes place in four ways: \nunprotected sexual intercourse with an infected partner (the most common); \nsharing needles when injecting or other use of contaminated injection or other skin- piercing equipment; \nblood and blood products through, for example, infected transfusions and organ or tissue transplants, \ntransmission from infected mother to child in the womb or at birth and breastfeeding. \nHIV is not transmitted by casual physical contact, coughing, sneezing and kissing, by sharing toilet and washing facilities, by using eating utensils or consuming food and beverages handled by someone who has HIV; it is not spread by mosquitoes or other insect bites.
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No one knows what produced AIDS, but it came from somewhere in Africa.  Sex, and passing of bodily fluids such as blood, and semen can pass Aids or HIV rather from one person to another. AIDS comes in the later stages of HIV.  So technically HIV produces AIDS.  But sex does not produce HIV, it is simply a means for it to be passed from an infected person to a non infected person.
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HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) attacks the body's immune system. When it does, HIV weakens the body's ability to fight off infection. If left untreated, HIV will eventually weaken the immune system so much that the person will become sick from certain types of infections. When the person gets these infections, he or she is said to have AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). For some, it takes a long time to develop these infections and therefore AIDS. For others it takes less time. Not everyone with HIV has AIDS and AIDS is not the same as HIV.
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hiv among other things
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Aids is a disease that is spread through intercourse with different partners during sexual acts, or sharing dirty infected needles for drug useage, or even from bodily fluids being exchanged...
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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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Acquired Human Auto-Immune Deficiency Syndrome.\n\nBasically, it's a virus that hides from your body's immune system, and then kills your cells and turns them into "AIDS Factories."
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HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus and AIDS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome has been studied for the last 25 years. Lots is known about HIV, since AIDS is a syndrome, it is difficult to know everything about it. So, perhaps everything is not known but there are tons of credible information on both.
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Already, more than twenty-five million people around the world have died of AIDS-related diseases. In 2005, around 3.1 million men, women and children lost their lives. Nearly twice the number who have died until now - 40.3 million - are now living with HIV, and most of these are likely to die over the next decade or so. The most recent UNAIDS/WHO estimates show that, in 2005 alone, 4.9 million people were newly infected with HIV.
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It can transmit HIV, the virus that can lead to AIDs.
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HIV has no obvious symptoms.  The only way to detect it is by a blood test.\nAIDS is usually diagnosed when a person develops certain opportunistic infections not seen in people with healthy immune systems.  Kaposi's sarcoma, pneumocystis carinii, shingles, fungal infections.  The person also is more likely to catch colds and flu that run a longer course than is to be expected.
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a disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which kills or impairs cells of the immune system and progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. HIV is most commonly spread by sexual contact with an infected partner. The term AIDS applies to the most advanced stages of an HIV infection.
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AIDS is the disease caused by the HIV virus.\n\nYou can get infected with HIV if the virus passes into your body from someone else who is already infected.\n\nThere are two main ways this can happen:\n\n1. Through having unprotected (no condom) vaginal or anal sex with someone who has HIV. Oral sex carries a small risk of transmission. There has never been a reported case of transmission through kissing (even deep kissing).\n\n2. Through someone else's infected blood getting directly into your bloodstream, for example through sharing drug or tattoo needles or injecting equipment, or piercing with unsterile equipment. In the first half of the 1980s a number of people were infected from contaminated blood transfusions, but this is very rare now because blood donations are screened. Sometimes HIV is passed from an infected mother to her foetus either in the womb or during birth.\n\nYou CANNOT get HIV through normal non sexual contact, or from sharing eating utensils or from mosquitoes.