What is the actual statistic of people living with HIV. Is it really every 1 in 4 people?
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i don't believe that. perhaps in some areas of the world, like in africa or something.
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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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Population:    \n131,859,731 \nnote: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.)  \nAge structure:   \n0-14 years: 42.3% (male 28,089,017/female 27,665,212) \n15-64 years: 54.6% (male 36,644,885/female 35,405,915) \n65 years and over: 3.1% (male 1,930,007/female 2,124,695) (2006 est.)  \nMedian age:   \ntotal: 18.7 years \nmale: 18.7 years \nfemale: 18.6 years (2006 est.)  \nPopulation growth rate:   \n2.38% (2006 est.)  \nBirth rate:    \n40.43 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)  \nDeath rate:    \n16.94 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)  \nNet migration rate:   \n0.27 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)  \nSex ratio:   \nat birth: 1.03 male(s)/female \nunder 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female \n15-64 years: 1.04 male(s)/female \n65 years and over: 0.91 male(s)/female \ntotal population: 1.02 male(s)/female (2006 est.)  \nInfant mortality rate:    \ntotal: 97.14 deaths/1,000 live births \nmale: 104.05 deaths/1,000 live births \nfemale: 90.02 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)  \nLife expectancy at birth:    \ntotal population: 47.08 years \nmale: 46.52 years \nfemale: 47.66 years (2006 est.)  \nTotal fertility rate:    \n5.49 children born/woman (2006 est.)  \nHIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:    \n5.4% (2003 est.)  \nHIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:    \n3.6 million (2003 est.)  \nHIV/AIDS - deaths:    \n310,000 (2003 est.)  \nMajor infectious diseases:   \ndegree of risk: very high \nfood or waterborne diseases: bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever \nvectorborne disease: malaria \nrespiratory disease: meningococcal meningitis \naerosolized dust or soil contact disease: one of the most highly endemic areas for Lassa fever (2005)  \n\n\ngood luck.
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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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Misconceptions about HIV?\n\n1. It is communicable in any form. \n\nHIV is only picked up through exchange of bodily fluid (mucus membane {such as the mouth} or via an open wound).\n\n2. Someone with HIV will die quickly.\n\nWith the development of medications, HIV is kept at bay. Usually, as long as the person is free from an active illness, that person can have a fairly healthy life.
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Unfortunately you CANNOT cure HIV, however you CAN suppress it from becoming full-blown AIDS indefinately.  \nThe only way to do this is by going to the doctor often, getting the right antiviral meds (VERY expensive), the proper vaccines against other infections, and avoiding high risk for infection - avoid sick people, wash hands often, avoid hospitals if possible, cook food thoroughly, take care of yourself physically.\n\n"Surviving HIV requires a substantial amount of social support, education, and hope.  Quality medical care is essential from experienced HIV specialists as is a person's will to live, and willingness to become their own best advocate.  This often means that the person living with HIV/AIDS must learn or be able to work with his medical providers as a partner, doing his or her part to take the medications as prescribed, reduce the possibility of becoming re-infected with more HIV, but also to ask questions, and report any problems with taking medications and/or side effects." - http://www.guardianhealth.org/hiv.htm\n\nI'm betting Magic is taking all precautions to follow all these measures.  However, he is just as susceptible as anyone else to problems.  He would not be the first person to beat the odds, and some of those that have are regular, everyday people.
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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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Aids is a type of diasease.  It is not really contageous...  But, if someone gets a cut, and somebody else "touchs" the blood and get into the body, they are now infected...  Now, that person hads HIV from the person who got a cut.  To get HIV, which is a first base of AIDS..  a HIV has to enter a person through blood, or other ways... By blood is mainly...  **sorry but, Also, having sex with someone who has HIV will also transfer the germs..\n\nHIV will soon develope into what you are wonder about, AIDS\n\nAIDS is a farther stage HIV.  AIDS is consider when a person is going to die from HIV.   \n\nTo determine if a person has HIV, you can possible tell by if that person gets sick easily, and also a lot.  But, this is one way to get started in thinking if you do.  The best to determine is to find a specialist.  \n\n\n\nHere's the main answer\n\n\nIf one person hads AIDS or HIV, it can harm others by donating blood to others that they don't even know they have it.  Then, that would be 2 people that has HIV or AIDS.  Soon, if they give birth, that would be 4 and so on.(4th because marrage to give birth)  It is very important that you know everything about yourself before choosing to do something that can harm others.  If everyone wouldn't care, Aids and hiv would be everywhere and no one would be on earth.  This could do a lot of harm.
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Why is everyone so uneducated...\npick up a book and read..\nHIV is not as contractible as everyone makes it out to be,\nyes it is contracted through blood, blood products, semen and vaginal fluids\nbut\nit is a virus that is highly unstable outside of it's environment\nThere are considerable low amounts of virus found in saliva but not enough to contract HIV through. Even needle stick injuries to health care providers have a 0.3% chance of contracting HIV and still it would depend on several factors such as,\nwhat stage was the person with HIV, if they were on a drug regime, how much virus was in the blood, how much blood you came in contact with, and if the blood was transmitted through an artery or vein.\n\nIt is silly to be worried about contracting HIV through a french kiss what you should be really worried about is contracting Hep C
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not valid at all. there are tens of thousands of studies that reinforce the idea that HIV is the cause of AIDS. the virusmyth people are only serving to weaken HIV prevention efforts by destroying the public trust in health providers (public, private and otherwise).\n\nthe National Institutes of Health have a factsheet to repsond to the HIV denialists (who rank down there with Holocaust deniers in terms of credibility).\n\nhttp://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/evidhiv.htm Read it and think it over.
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They could be.  A person with AIDS has a suppressed immune system, so they are more prone to getting infections, diseases, or cancers than a person without AIDS.  Actually a lot of people with AIDS die not from AIDS itself, but from other dieases that they contract...their immune system is so weak that they can't fight it off and they die from it.
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http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm#hivest\n\nRun some math and you will find out that roughly 2.9% of homosexuals in the US have HIV. (1 out of 34)\n\nWhere about .044 - .058% of heterosexuals do. (1 out of 2272 or 1724)\n\nIf UNPROTECTED you are living a risky lifestyle.\n\nExposure Category Estimated # of AIDS Cases, Through 2004* \nMale-to-male sexual contact 441,380\nMale heterosexual contact 59,939    \n\nhomosexual males in us? 5% = 15,000,000\nheterosexual males in us? the rest = 135,000,000
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A person who is infected may not show active signs of the disease and therefore even without proper medical care could live for years, however it is best if anyone thinks they are infected or conduct themselves which could lead to infection should get tested.\n\nTechnically AIDS/HIV does not kill a person..it merely weakens and compromises the immune system allowing other diseases/germs to weaken the person and kill them (possibly) shen the disease is active. With proper care and medication people who are infected can live for years and lead a "normal" life.\n\nIt is transmitted through the transfer of bodily fluids. Such as unprotected sex, sharing needles, blood transfusions (done years ago), open wounds, etc. You cannot get it from a handshake, sharing the toilet seat, casual contact.
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Just the one....my wife.\nThat is the ideal number, neither of us can compare each other to another.\nThis is the only way to stop aids dead within a few generations.
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A Red Cross study reported in 1989 that the risk was one in 153,000.\n\nCurrent estimates are that fewer than 1 in 1,900,000 blood components is capable of transmitting HIV.\n\nTherefore, the risk is very very very small.  You should be more worried about other Transfusion-Transmitted dieses.
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In 2004 about 380 thousand African-Americans had AIDS. HIV is not reportable in all jurisdictions, so there aren't current national HIV stats. That should change soon as more jurisdictions are making HIV reportable, and there will be significant changes to HIV epidemiology methodology. Nonetheless, a large portion of HIV+ people are unaware of their infection, so it's hard to get accurate numbers.
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AIDS activists keep stressing that HIV-positive people are just the same as others. You shouldn't have to eat anything specific or play specific sports. Just make sure to eat healthy and stay active.