Wat really aids is all about?
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AIDS IS ABOUT ATTACKING YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM AND LIFE...LEAVING U DESTITUTE AND UNLOVED...THE MOST HORRIBLE DISEASE IN THE WORLD
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AIDS...gotta get them all!
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AIDS, per say, say was not "discovered."  It was named. AIDS itself is NOT a disease.  Rather it is the end manisfestation of infection with HIV.  AIDS is a "collection" of opportunistic infections which prey on the immune system which has been compromised by HIV.  HIV infection/AIDS continues to spread in all corners of the world.  It seems that in the US people have again become complacent about it, with rates increasing in all metro areas.  One factor that the increase of infection is being attributed to is the use of Meth.
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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 among other things
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No disease is accepted by anyone if their is a cure available.but the irony about AIDS is that Its not curable but completely preventable...thats why the interventions are targeted to youth to make them acknowledged so that they can prevent it..
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Don't know how urine therapy is going to help the trasnmission of HIV/AIDS. Boosting the immune system is great but aids is a highly specific virus that attacks T-cells and macrophages. Often times the fetus is taken as a forgeign entity and attacked by the mother's own body. By these very same leukocytes. I don't know how likely it is but I would assume the chance is very high for transmission to occur. We can't even cure AIds at this stage in time. How could we isolate the disease in one area of our body and keep it from others. It's not entirely feasible.
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (or acronym AIDS or Aids), is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific "damage to the immune system" caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).\n\nTherefore, it damages the immune system of the affected person thereby making him/her prone to opportunistic infections and tumors.
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It seems that there is a lot of misinformation going around this site regarding AIDS and HIV. I have AIDS but I am far from being a "victim". As far as surviving, yes I am doing quite well on the regimen that my doctor gave me. I take a few pills, and thats pretty much it. I get colds just like everybody else but I am not on deaths door as some may think. Having HIV isn't the best thing in the world but it certainly isn't a death sentence either. My suggestion to you is to check out AIDSmeds.com or thebody.com and get concrete information there and not rely on your fellow peers on yahoo.
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HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa is primarily a heterosexual disease; and many factors contribute towards it : low education levels, male-oriented societies with multiple partners and wives the norm, traditional healing/witchcraft beliefs (eg belief that sleeping with a virgin cures AIDS, discouragement of condoms), poverty/malnutrition and concomitant illnesses accelerating HIV progression, slow governmental reaction and lack of political leadership and will (South Africa), lack of money for adequate anti-retrovirals (and poor compliance due to lack of education), and a blind eye turned on the problem by the rest of the world when compared to ridiculously insignificant global problems (comparatively speaking) such as bird flu etc.\n\nIt is an absolute tragedy, and has decimated many communities (and continues to do so).
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aids is a disease that effects your immune system. as to how you get it... thats probably what your parents dont want you to know
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Well first you have to understand the difference between AIDS and HIV. HIV is the actual virus and AIDS is the condition you get because of the virus, in other words, AIDS isn't the actual sickness, just a description of the symptoms. It's also important to note that not all people with HIV have AIDS, their body has been able to keep the virus in check, but not eliminate it.\n\nThe reason HIV can't be cured, is that along with many other viruses, they are extremely hard to fight, both with medicine and by our bodies own immune system. Thats why we generally use immunization to prevent viral infection, our body has a much better chance of fighting a virus it knows how to defeat. HIV is also particularly nasty in the fact that it actually attacks the systems meant to protect our body from disease.
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treatment for HIV/AIDS involves a triple cocktail of anti-retroviral therapy. It can delay the onset of full blown AIDS by years and maintain a good standard of living.
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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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Well, there's a big difference with being HIV positive and having AID's. Simply put, HIV will cause AID's. HIV is the virus that attacks your immune system and AID's is the resulting condition of health (i.e. being susceptible to disease and unable to fight common bacterial invaders). It can take as long as a decade from acquiring HIV to finally having full blown AID's. \n\nPeople like Magic Johnson are able to repress the onset of AID's through a complex and expensive regimen of medical treatments. Even though he seems to be perfectly healthy, he requires many types of medicine off-screen. The fact that he can afford them differentiates his health care than with that of a non-celebrity. \n\nCelebrities may have a lot of STD's but many STD's aren't really a big as deal as you would think. Gonorrhea can be cured  with a pill a day for as short as a five days. Chlamydia can be cured with a single dose of anti-biotics. Herpes can be repressed, though never cured, but have periods of dormancy so a person's lifestyle is not really heavily affected. \n\nThe only celebrity I know with a serious disease is Pamela Anderson with, I think, Hepatitis C? But she claims to have gotten it from a dirty tattoo gun.\n\nBut anway, an STD is a loosely associated word. It can be easily used as a scare tactic but in reality, STD's are more common than you think but less serious than you think IF treated early. I believe the HIV virus cannot live outside of the body for more than a few moments as well, so contamination from spilled blood is not too likely. If you could catch a common cold from sex, then a cold would be an STD. Not so scary huh? \nWell, it shouldn't be taken likely but not be used as a scare tactic. \n\nMy bad, kinda rambled on, huh?\n\nWell, I'm a nurse, hope that helped :)
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This question is ridiculous. AIDS is not only an epidemic, it is a pandemic, and it is most certainly something to be scared of.\n\nThe HIV/AIDS virus is only transmissable through bodily fluids; blood and semen. For this reason, it is most commonly found in gay men and drug abusers. Gay men have anal sex, which usually results in some anal bleeding. When one man ejaculates, the semen can infect the open wounds from which the blood is emitting. This however, it not only seen in gay men, it is also a risk to women who have anal sex with an infected male. Transmission is no different.\n\nIn terms of transmission among drug abusers, this refers to drugs such as heroine which is taken with a needle. Drug abusers arent known for their cleanliness in this matter and  usually use needles which have already been used before. When the needle is used to inject someone with AIDS, it picks up the virus from their blood, when this needle is reused, the person who injects themself will most probably recieve the disease by introducing the infected blood of the first person into their own body.\n\nNo self respecting scientist...or educated person for that matter...would deny that AIDS is caused by a virus. It is a retrovirus and has been extensively studied. It cannot target any specific group of people. Those people are just more susceptible to it through unprotected anal sex and drug abuse with needles.\n\nIt is also very common for people who had blood transfusions in the late 70's and early 80's to have contracted the virus. This is because at that time there were far less restrictions on who could or could not give blood; also, not enough was known about the virus to test blood donors for the disease.\n\nI'm sorry to tell you that the AIDS in africa is the same AIDS we have here, in fact, 50% of the South African army is infected with the HIV virus. There have been more deaths in Africa due to AIDS than there have been deaths by malaria. It is more common in africa due to their lack of contraception, and their significantly less sanitary and deprived medical centers.
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hiv is the virus. aids is the disease that stems from the virus.hiv is a virus that kills your immune system slowly.