Aids...does it kill anyone anymore?
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As far as I know, Magic Johnson does not have AIDS, he has HIV.  The disease is only called AIDS when the person's Tcell count drops down really low.  At this point, opportunistic diseases attack and those are what kill the person.  People die from AIDS-related illnesses everyday and it is still very rampant in the United States.  There are very expensive drug cocktails (that have uncomofortable side effects) that help people live much longer with the disease, but it's still a killer.
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Having AIDS is hugely problematic.  It is a fatal illness.  Eventually a person with AIDS will die.  It may take 10 years, 15 years, but they will get very sick and it's only a matter of time.\n\nIt's great to have AIDS and still love LIFE, but I think it's a little strange to love having the illness itself.
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Let's see I would say that cancer is curable now, if detected early. The problem is that many people don't go to the doctor for regular check ups.  In the case of AIDS is caused by a virus. The scientific community knows little about viruses, and the HIV virus is constantly mutating, making it difficult to find something that would stop it.  They might find something that works for a certain strain of a virus but soon that strain will mutate, so the it won't work.  I hope that help you a little to understand that even with the resources it is not easy to find cures to things that are constantly changing.
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Already, more than twenty-five million people around the world have died of AIDS-related diseases. In 2005, around 3.1 million men, women and children lost their lives. Nearly twice the number who have died until now - 40.3 million - are now living with HIV, and most of these are likely to die over the next decade or so. The most recent UNAIDS/WHO estimates show that, in 2005 alone, 4.9 million people were newly infected with HIV.
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Try to live my life to the fullest because I'll know that someday soon I won't be around much longer. I watched as my uncle slowly died from complications caused by AIDS. I was only 12, it was very hard on my family, especially my mom, because they were best friends. It's a terrible way to die.
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sure,by blood spread it can go 2 ur heart,lungs &may even go 2 brain....but it all depends on when do u discover it...ur immunity&sticking 2 treatment.....u know what?AIDS is an infection&it absolutely kills
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yes it does. It also kills the AIDS virus. Too bad it will kill humans if it is ingested or put in the veins. Otherwise we could use it to kill all of our illnesses.
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well AIDS is caused by HIV retrovirus . it affects the immune system by drastically reducing the number of white blood cells in the blood stream . if a person gets AIDS he/she is prone 2 evry disease in the wrld cuz of their weak immune system. a person has 2 b HIV positive 2 determine if he/she has AIDS . a person might eventually die of  AIDS . i said MIGHT therez a chance of survival ... but the person has 2 take a regular dosage of medicines 2 keep away frum diseases and there are chances of the disease spreading to the affected pplz children 2 . once again i sad CHANCES. hope i helped.\n\ncheers\nanu
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(m)\n\nFALSE. \n\nThe AIDS virus is actually quite flimsy and dies when the fluid it lives in, usually semen or blood, is exposed to air and dries out. It does not live long or well outside the human body, probably for not longer than a few hours. Wiping up the fluids with household bleach can kill the virus. In addition, the virus can be washed from the hands or skin with regular soap.
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Okay, the answers you've been given so far explain why HIV is spreading so rampantly in Africa, and they make good points.\n\nBut none of them have explained the aftermath of high HIV prevalence. I assume that's what you wanted to know.\n\nAIDS kills. In Africa, the proportion of HIV-infected people is so high right now that entire villages are being wiped out. Youths and adults are going to die off in droves. These are the people who make up the work force. Without them, an already-impoverished region will experience total economic CATASTROPHE. Babies are dying of AIDS, adding to an infant-mortality rate that was pretty high to begin with. But those who do survive will not have their parents around to raise them. They will not have adults to educate them. They will not learn the skills they need to be productive citizens. So while an entire generation of people is being decimated by AIDS, the generation that seeks to replace them will be ill-equipped for survival. Meanwhile, the elder generation is a little less affected by HIV, but they, too, will die (though more likely of age or other problems).\n\nEssentially, without HIV prevention measures, Africa will be destroyed both socially (decimation of population) and economically (destruction of work force).\n\nADDENDUM: if you need to be a pedant, VivX, check out def. #3 http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/decimate
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we cant....it is a monstrous task, and one that will not be eradicated until a cure is found.  Most of these people do not fully understand what aids is, or don't even know it exist, or don't believe it is real.  I was watching a discovery channel presentation and they asked this African woman if she believed she could get aids, her response, "Only bad people get aids"
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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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I know that in 1984 AIDS still wasn't something the general public was aware of because I had to have a surgery and the only reason my mom knew to ask for the blood to be tested was because of a chance encounter with a woman at the mall who knew about AIDS.  \n\nWhen they first discovered it, I don't know.  I would guess that they probably started noticing simularites between people's symptoms during the late 70s or so then started doing testing which usually takes a while and it became known as AIDS in the medical community by the late70s or early80s.  You could probably google it.  \n\nI did know someone (my dad's friend) that was diagnosed, he died about 5 years ago.  Treatment methods to keep HIV from progressing to full blown AIDS have improved substantially since then, but it's still debilitating and incurable.
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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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AIDS -- 10 years ago (about) death was certain and now people live without even getting sick\nCOMPUTERS - Think of all the changes in 10 years...\n\nIf that doesn't float you boat go to this amazing site for LOTS of ideas -- the link is for AIDS but you can just go to www.goldenessays.com and click on free essays and there are hundreds there!!
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Yes. http://curezone.com/forums/m.asp?f=3&i=1339#i\n\nThere are hundreds of people who are cured from AIDS every day\nbut their voices are silenced. AIDS is a multi billion dollar industry that depends on it not being cured. Become aware that human beings are being manipulated by the drug industry to consume drugs. There are answers but the drug industry will not allow the truth about low cost ways to defeat AIDS to come out. Those who find the answer are never given a voice. Magic Johnson had the money to be cured but even a millionaire can't tell the world how he did it.
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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.