Aids/HIV information, Symptoms, treatment

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is an infectious disease, viral chronic, characterized by declining defenses of the body. This leads to the emergence of opportunistic diseases, which are so called because they benefit from the progressive inability of a sick person to defend themselves in order to develop these opportunistic diseases are represented by certain infections or cancers, which will weaken further the agency reached. The virus responsible for AIDS disease is called the AIDS virus or HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus).
What characterizes this infection is that it moves silently on a chronic: a person with HIV is not the disease AIDS immediately, it may take several years before the disease does occur. HIV infection is contagious, even when the infected person is not ill, it can transmit the virus. Transmission is a human being (man or woman) to another human being (man or woman), mostly on the occasion of unprotected sex with an infected partner.
Therefore, it is a sexually transmitted disease (STD). The only means of prevention is the protection of partners during sex with condoms when you do not know their HIV status and that of his partner, if condoms are not used, we talk about relative to risk.
A pregnant woman infected with HIV can transmit the virus to the child she is carrying. The transmission can be done by blood, mostly by sharing a syringe contaminated.
If a person has been infected by the AIDS virus, the virus is present in his body and will be HIV-positive vis-à-vis the virus, ie it has produced antibodies against the virus, HIV.
As long as a body has not been in contact with the AIDS virus, it will be HIV-negative. A person infected with the AIDS virus, introducing the disease AIDS or not, treated or not, must be monitored regularly by a doctor. Today through research, new drugs have been on the market, therapeutic protocols were refined. The triple therapy, ie the combination of 3 drugs prescribed simultaneously, as recommended by the experts can reverse the disease AIDS, HIV infection has become a chronic condition. The global AIDS epidemic began in the eighty years. Today, almost 40 million people are infected: homosexual, heterosexual men, women and children. Millions have already dead. Many children are orphans of father, mother or both, died of AIDS. Almost one million are infected.
The African region sub-Saharan Africa is particularly affected.

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