what is the caues of HIV/AIDS?
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HIV is a virus that is passed through blood and body fluids.  It can be passed through unprotected sex, used needles, oral, and rectal sex.  Viruses are common and this is an illness just like chicken pox is an illness.  Early detection and taking meds as prescribed can make the virus undetectable in a person's blood, but they must continue taking meds forever to keep it under control. It is not a death sentence to be diagnosed with HIV.
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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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The time between you cntact the HIV Infection and the developemnt of Aids varies between individuals. About 50% develop Aids within 10 years of infection but may be still more years.   You are infected but the symptoms develop after many years. By the time you will be infecting the people. Progression of the disease is affected by age at HIV infection, mode of transmission and genetic factors.
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First of all we all have AIDS\nAIDS stands for - auto-immune deficiency syndrome. When we catch a cold or the flu or any other virus, we are trying to fight off and infection within the body, and that is AIDS.\n \nAIDS within a healthy body is vitality, because the system known as the body has no reason to be sick.\nHowever in a body that is trying to fight off an illness and our system is weakened the auto immune system goes into over drive to heal the body.\n  \nIt's the HIV that kills when in combination with a weakend AIDS system.\n\nAnd what really kills is ignorance to a disease that has no discrimination what so ever. From the innocent babies in Africa, to those who recieved blood transfusions.\n\nMany website on the topic of HIV/AIDS look it up.
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HIV is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid or breast milk. This transmission can come in the form of: penetrative (anal or vaginal) sex; oral sex; blood transfusion; contaminated needles; exchange between mother and infant during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding; or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.
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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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AIDS is not the cause by a virus called HIV. In Fact, HIV has never been proven that been exists.
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64,631,595\n\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.)
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I believe AIDS is a condition in which HIV has weakened your immune system enough to lower your white blood cell count below a certain amount.  Below that amount your body is incredibly susceptible to illness and disease.  Some patients never reach that point.  Magic Johnson, for example, the professional basketball player with HIV and the worst talk show know to man has been living with HIV for some time now.  He has faught it of so well that his recent tests show that the HIV virus is no longer detectable.
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HIV and AIDS is treated the same across the United States.  Information is difficult to acquire as it is typically is discussed in very confusing medical terms.  There are 2 good places to start.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia has a website and they are the 'authority' on matters of infectious disease.  Wikipedia.com is also an excellent source of information which is easier to understand.
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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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It is thought that there are a millions persons living with HIV/AIDS in the US.\n\nIt is thought that 4.9 million were living with HIV/AIDS in the world in 2005.\n\nThese are only collected statistics. Many countries do not have the means to track infected individuals.
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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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Main Entry: AIDS\nPronunciation: 'Adz\nFunction: noun\nEtymology: acquired immunodeficiency syndrome\n: a disease of the human immune system that is characterized cytologically especially by reduction in the numbers of CD4-bearing helper T cells to 20 percent or less of normal rendering the subject highly vulnerable to life-threatening conditions (as Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia) and to some that become life-threatening (as Kaposi's sarcoma) and that is caused by infection with HIV commonly transmitted in infected blood and bodily secretions (as semen) especially during illicit intravenous drug use and sexual intercourse
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A little less work searching is to go to the CDC.gov. This url will get to the Hiv/Aids info.
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http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm
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What exactly is your question, whether there are any?  there are people infected with HIV/AIDS everywhere