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Well there's HIV then there's AIDS. HIV usually can take years to turn into aids and some people live with it for years before knowing they have it. Then there's aids,which can't kill you. What it does is it attacks your white blood cells, and destroys them making it impossible for your body to fight off diseases. The rate depends entirely on what shape your body is in, if you have a good immune system and are in good shape you'll most likely live longer then someone who is obese and old, and if you are in an area of great risk for dangerous diseases.

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If you test negative for HIV can you still spread the virus?

No, aids can only be passed on through body fluids. IE Sperm, Saliva and also blood. How ever, to get aids from saliva you have to drink at least 9 litres of it so kissing is fine. So if your partner does not have aids you will not get it from that partner.


How to prevent aids?

You prevent aids by not getting infected by HIV. HIV is spread through body fluids. Avoiding sexual contact and contact with blood through sharing needles and transfusions can go a long way toward preventing it.


Can facials give you HIV AIDS?

HIV/ AIDS is only spread by sexual contact without safe sex or by blood contact. The virus can't spread by blood sucking animals. e.g. Leaches, ticks and so on.


Do people with HIV never get aids?

HIV is an infection that LEADS to AIDS. So, most likely, people with HIV are very likely to get AIDS.


Why are HIV AIDS so important?

Aids ruin your immune sytem and kill you, HIV is the beginning of aids, but doesnt mean you have AIDS


What were the reasons why HIV spread so quickly in the US?

nobody know ed what for a illness it is and nobody know how to prevent this illness.


Do People go back and forth From AIDS to HIV then back to AIDS or is just in your numbers I know below 200 is AIDS direction but if you go back to 300 or so are you now back to Hiv or still AIDS...?

HIV+ but I don't see how that can happen...


What is aids and what causes aids?

AIDS is what you get when you have the HIV virus, its the next stage of the virus and that will kill you so once you get AIDS that's it, there is no cure and no treatment for AIDS. There is treatment for HIV and Magic Johnson is the first person that i have ever heard of that announced that he had the HIV virus 15 years ago and never got AIDS but he took these drugs and it stopped him from getting AIDS but he will always have the HIV virus.


Can a man get HIV from a healthy man?

If neither person has HIV then neither will get it from each other. HIV can only survive in the human body (it dies quickly outside it) so if neither person has HIV it will not suddenly appear. There must be someone who has HIV for it be spread in the first place.


What is The name of the pathogenic organism that causes aids?

HIV- Human Immunodeficiency Virus *HIV is not a pathogenic organism, but a virus. To be an organism it must be able to replicate on its own, which it cannot. It needs a host to do so.


Are HIV and AIDs two distinct diseases?

HIV is the virus. AIDS is the disease caused by the virus. (So HIV is not actually a disease per se.) As an analogue - the H1N1 virus can cause the flu.


What does Magic Johnson have to do with AIDS?

Magic Johnson announced in 1991 that he was HIV-positive. How he's survived 18 years with HIV is a mystery to basically everyone. I seriously wonder if he was misdiagnosed, because most people who contract HIV die of AIDS within 2 years or so, tops.