What excactly are aids?
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Helpers, it depends on the context.  Please specify, do you mean nurses' aids? teachers' aids? etc.?
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Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),[1] the late stage of which leaves individuals prone to opportunistic infections and tumours. Although treatments for AIDS and HIV exist that slow the virus' progression, there is no known cure.
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There are many medicines that can combat the effects of HIV/AIDS. These are mostly a class of drugs called "anti-retrovirals" that keep the virus from reporoducing.\nYou can find a database of these drugs at:\nhttp://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=ar-00-02
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It is possible to transmit AIDS by saliva but not very often.  It's more often transmitted by blood or sexually.  AIDS is an STD.  People often transmit it by using already used needles.  It's more likely to be transmitted by kissing if you have an open wound in your mouth, like a cut on your lip.
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AIDS is a really serious problem.  People should definately worry about it more because it changes your life.  I think people who have AIDS should be honest with their parteners (because most aren't) and warn them.  AIDS is an auto immune disease.  You get sick easily, and it will most likely result in a premature death.
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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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sexa nd how it leads 2 aids, sex first tho, tell about aids wen a lil bit older
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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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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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I hope you are joking.  Unprotected sex & using dirty needles for drug abuse are both causes for AIDS and HIV.  HIV is a cause of AIDS. Knowledge is the key and if you are serious i hope you take the time to research.  Not A Laughing Mater!!!
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Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, is very similar to Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV) that infects monkeys and apes.  \n\nHIV/AIDS most likely began when a monkey or ape infected with SIV bit a human and infected the human with SIV.  The SIV virus then mutated into HIV, which was better suited to infect humans.
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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 an abbreviation for an immunity deficiency syndrome. With aids, your lungs usually become infected to the point of pneumonia (fluid build up). The infection that causes the fluid can not be treated because your immune system is shot. The fluid builds up until you can no longer breathe. You drown and die. It is sad. And it is - for now - a hopeless disease.
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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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Assuming you're talking about the classic, Rice-esque vampire, no.  AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a condition resulting from the contraction of HIV, a sexually-transmitted disease.  HIV requires a properly metabolizing body (which it is doubtful that vampires have).  Even if they could contract HIV, though, vampires would still never develop AIDS because it requires a weakened immune system.  Vampires, supposedly, are impervious to mortal disease and thus have no use for an immune system.
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"Human immunodeficiency virus (commonly known as HIV, and formerly known as HTLV-III and lymphadenopathy-associated virus) is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells. It also directly and indirectly destroys CD4+ T cells. As CD4+ T cells are required for the proper functioning of the immune system, when enough CD4+ T cells have been destroyed by HIV, the immune system functions poorly, leading to the syndrome known as AIDS. HIV also directly attacks organs, such as the kidneys, the heart and the brain leading to acute renal failure, cardiomyopathy, dementia and encephalopathy. Many of the problems faced by people infected with HIV result from failure of the immune system to protect from opportunistic infections and cancers.\n\nHIV 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.\n\nHIV is hypothesized to have originated in southern Cameroon after jumping from wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes troglodytes) to humans during the twentieth century[1][2]. Infection in humans is now pandemic. As of January 2006, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that AIDS has killed more than 25 million people since it was first recognized on December 1, 1981, making it one of the most destructive pandemics in recorded history. In 2005 alone, AIDS claimed an estimated 2.4 - 3.3 million lives, of which more than 570,000 were children.[3] A third of these deaths are occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, retarding economic growth by destroying human capital. Current estimates say that about 28 million people have died and that HIV is set to infect 90 million people in Africa, resulting in a minimum estimate of 18 million orphans in Africa.[4] Antiretroviral treatment reduces both the mortality and the morbidity of HIV infection, but routine access to antiretroviral medication is not available in all countries.[5] HIV/AIDS stigma is more severe than that associated with other life-threatening conditions and extends beyond the disease itself to providers and even volunteers involved with the care of people living with HIV."
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The other answers are close, but not quite.\n\nAIDS is Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.  It's caused by HIV.