In the United States, we do not use a stage classification for AIDS purposes. HIV positive patients either have AIDS or they don't.
However, the WHO (World Health Organization) does use a classification system. Every classification after stage 1 requires the patient to have demonstrated certain criteria.
You can call the first stage a flu-type infection. But it doesn't mean that any flu-like infections are caused by HIV, it just that the flu-like infections are common in the beginning of many diseases.
Then is a period that is very quiet (the virus is busy making more of the virus). Next will be rather odd infections like TB and even tumors. Both happen because your immune system has been suppressed by the virus. The last stage is called AIDS.
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Median interval would be approximately 3-8 years.
Advanced stage of HIV infection is AIDS.
AIDs is the forth stage of HIV Infection.The four stages Of HIV are:Primary HIV InfectionAsymptomatic HIVSymptomatic HIVAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
STAGES OF HIV Acute HIV Syndrome * First stage seroconversion * virus rapidly spreads to organs, especially the lymphoid tissues * HIV virus not very aggressive in causing diseases or severe symptoms Asymptomatic State * infection is latent * virus starts to grow and multiply in the lymph nodes Symptomatic Disease/AIDS * Viremia (spread of virus in the blood) * Loss of immune system, mainly due to infection of CD4+ T-Lymphocytes End stage Disease * immune system collapses * virus continues to slowly destroy the Immune System for up to 10 years * usually an opportunistic infection is the cause of death Without treatment, the average time from infection to AIDS is eight to eleven years.Without treatment, 78/100 percent of Hiv-infected people will develop AIDS within fifteen years of infection.
HIV is a harmful virus. The end stage of HIV infection is AIDS.
1.) The first stage, but called the "Window Period", Its the time interval from when the virus enters the body of the patient and then develops enough antibodies to determine the virus in an HIV test 2.) The second stage, known as the "Asymptomatic Stage", Its where it shows no sign of the infection, due to the fact that the immune system is fighting off the virus. 3.) The third stage, is known as the "Symptomatic Stage", where the virus becomes active in the body and makes your body weaker.
It is a disease that is present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic. HIV is an example of this.
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is not a stage of HIV infection, but rather a diagnosis given to an HIV+ person who has reached a certain level of decreased immune function. The AIDS diagnosis is based on the health of a person's immune system, not the amount of virus in the body.
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HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. AIDS is the final stage of HIV disease.