what are the simtoms of aids?
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You can be infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and have no symptoms at all. On average, it takes about 7 to 9 years for symptoms to develop. Most symptoms of AIDS are not caused directly by the HIV virus, but by an infection or other condition acquired due to the weakened immune system. Symptoms can include severe weight loss, fevers, headaches, drenching night sweats, fatigue, severe diarrhea, shortness of breath, and difficulty swallowing. The symptoms tend to last for weeks or months at a time and do not go away without treatment. Since these symptoms are commonly seen in other diseases, you can't assume any symptom is HIV/AIDS-related until you get laboratory tests. See a doctor if you think you may be at risk or if you have symptoms. \nYou might not know if you get infected by HIV. Some people get fever, headache, sore muscles and joints, stomach ache, swollen lymph glands, or a skin rash for one or two weeks. Most people think it's the flu. Some people have no symptoms. \nThe virus will multiply in your body for a few weeks or even months before your immune system responds. During this time, you won't test positive for HIV, but you can infect other people. \nWhen your immune system responds, it starts to make antibodies. When you start making antibodies, you will test positive for HIV. \nAfter the first flu-like symptoms, some people with HIV stay healthy for ten years or longer. But during this time, HIV is damaging your immune system. \nOne way to measure the damage to your immune system is to see how many CD4+ cells you have. These cells, also called "T-helper" cells, are an important part of the immune system. Healthy people have between 500 and 1,500 CD4+cells in milliliter of blood. \nWithout treatment, your CD4+ cell count will most likely go down. You might start having signs of HIV disease like fevers, night sweats, diarrhea, or swollen lymph nodes. If you have HIV disease, these problems will last more than a few days, and probably continue for several weeks.
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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.
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Hi!!\n\n"HIV is the virus that may causes AIDS. HIV belongs to a subset of viruses called retroviruses or slow virus. \n\n\n \nThis is because it is a progressive disease. HIV is entered through the body through the mucous membranes or thru blood to blood contact. \n\n\nOnce you get the virus it slowly begins to attack the immune system, killing off healthy immune system cells. The deterioration and destruction of immune function leads to AIDS. \n\n\nAIDS is the final stage of the HIV infection. A person is said to have AIDS when the cd4 counts drops below 200 and or a person has 1 or more opportunistic infections. The OIs, as they are called, are normal infections that a healthy person would be able to fight off. \n\n\nThe four stages of the HIV infection are as follows: \n\n\n1) The period following infection is called the window. It is called this because it reflect the window of time between infection and that which antibodies are devlop in a person. The HIV test looks for antibodies not the virus. \n\n\n2) The second stage is called seroconversion. This is when the body begins to develop lots of antibodies to fight off the virus in the body. During this period a person may have flu like sympton. Also during this period is said to be very infectious. \n\n\n3) The third stage is called symptom free. During this period a person may have no sympton what so ever. This can last any where from 6 months to well over ten years. The medical world is not sure why some people are living sympton free for so long. \n\n\n4) The final stage is called AIDS. This is the period when TCELL drop to below 200 and the OI"S are present. \n\n\nSo, as we see, HIV is a infection that will leads to AIDS. \n\n\nThe body immune system is slowly being attacked until it is destroyed and can't fight off infections. Once this happens a person is said to have AIDS. AIDS is the final stage."\n\nI hope the above answers your question.\n\n>>> Naveen Kumar
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all i will say is check out this link headed by duesberg the top virologist who address the misconception within the public sphere and scientific community about HIV and AIDS \nhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6814491427846073388&q=AIDS+CONSPIRACY&pl=true\n\nalternatively go to the Heal website\n\nlet me know what you think...
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The link below may help.  It has breaking news in Health.  The AIDS epidemic is always topical.
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yes AIDS is transmitted through body fluids, including vaginal secretions.
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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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Aids is a sexually transmitted disease AKA, STD. Aids is when you body suddenly in incapable to kill viruses that are easily transmitted and common, aids is a fatal disease because it highly effects your immune system.\n\nAids is hard to be transmitted, in fact you need to go out of your way to transmit aids. Although aids is a virus, aids can only be transmitted 2 ways, 1: when sharing un-cleaned needles with an infected person and their body fluid enters your bloodstream, and 2: during sexual intercourse with a partner whom is infected with aids. \n\nAlthough traces of aids can be found in natural body fluids (sweat, saliva, tears...) you cannot get aids by sharing a towel with an infected partner. In fact scientist and doctors believe that you need at least a quart of infected fluid in your bloodstream to achieve aids.Therefore, no you cannot get aids unless you have sex with an infected person, or you have several amounts of infected fluid in your bloodstream.
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Aids occurs from unsafe sexual contact, affected syringes, donated blood from an aids affected mother to her child. Its symptoms generally show after sometime
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If you mean diseases related to the HIV virus, Kaposi's sarcoma is one very common one that manifests as sores on the skin, the other common one is pneumocystis pneumonia.
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* Population\n* Pollution\n* Aids/HIV
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Remember, the HIV virus is what CAUSES AIDS. AIDS itself is not the virus. You have to be infected with the HIV virus FIRST before the onset of AIDS, and being infected with HIV does NOT mean that AIDS is imminent.\n\nAccording to Wikipedia, the median survival time after developing AIDS is under 10 months. It is the progression from HIV to AIDS that can be anywhere from a couple months to 20 years.
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i would say you mean "is"\n\nbut the most affected by hiv and aids is 3rd world countries\n\nit just so happens that many 3rd world countries are in africa...
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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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Well, I think if you're still here, then somebody's doing something right, but that's really a question you should be asking a doctor, doll.\nUnfortunately, I am not familiar with the specifics of HIV or AIDS.  What I do know is that HIV can lead to AIDS, which stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.\nA deficient immune system is what would keep you from getting better if you did get sick, and would obviously be more likely to result in death.\nSo aside from the HIV-AIDS link there, I don't know what to tell you except ask a doc.
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AIDS is not the cause by a virus called HIV. In Fact, HIV has never been proven that been exists.
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The AIDS epidemic was discovered June 18, 1981, when the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (now classified as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia) in five gay men in Los Angeles. Originally dubbed GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not gay. In 1982, the CDC introduced the term AIDS to describe the newly recognized syndrome.\n\nThree of the earliest known instances of HIV infection are as follows:\n\n1. A plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult male living in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n2. HIV found in tissue samples from an American teenager who died in St. Louis in 1969.\n3. HIV found in tissue samples from a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.\n\n\nHope that helped!