HIV and AIDS

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The initial symptoms of HIV (within weeks of contracting the virus) are likened to flu symptoms. Patients may experience fever, head ache, tiredness and enlarged lymph nodes for a few weeks. Once the HIV virus has progressed the symptoms are lack of energy, weakness, fevers and sweats, yeast infections, memory loss and herpes.

The HIV virus has proven difficult to fight for a number of reasons. One of them is the fact that the virus mutates quickly. That means that the virus changes at the genetic level, making finding a vaccine that works for all variants of the virus difficult if not impossible, thus far.

There are medications that have been very successful in preventing the development of HIV/AIDS in infants born to infected mothers. I believe they are most effective if given immediately after birth so the mother's doctor must be aware of her status prior to delivery.

It's possible.

HIV is transmitted through bodily fluids. Mess around with bodily fluids while you have a cut on your skin would get it "inside".

Yes, they are one of the groups at highest risk of catching the disease and of having more severe complications from the flu. As soon as the vaccine is made available to them, they are encouraged to get the vaccine.

They should not use the vaccines that contain the live attenuated viruses, however. This includes the nasal mist that is approved in the US for use in healthy people aged 2 - 49. The flu shots for A-H1N1/09 that are approved for use in the US are made from inactivated viruses and are therefore the ones recommended for immunocompromised people. Always check with your health care professional to be sure that you are a candidate for vaccines, since each patient's care can vary due to their disease process or condition that has left them with suppressed immune systems.

People who are immuno-suppressed may have a less than optimum response to the vaccines due to their condition or their medications, therefore, they should continue to practice all the precautions for avoiding infection even after they have received a vaccination, just in case they are not fully protected by the vaccination.

People who are in close contact with, and caregivers for, the immuno-compromised patients should also avoid using the live attenuated virus vaccines, since there is a small, but possible, chance for the virus in the live vaccine to revert or mutate to one capable of making the immuno-suppressed person ill if they are exposed to the person vaccinated with the live variety of vaccine soon after they are vaccinated.

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no you retard It is possible, but very unlikely.

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No. Aids isn't actually a sickness, but hiv is. You can have hiv in your body in a long time (several years) without feeling sick or anything. What the hiv viruses do is that they infect your body's immune system and cells, and "program" them to make more hiv viruses, which infect new cells. And when they reach a certain point, your body will "give up", and you'll have what we call aids.

At the moment there are no kind of medication that can get rid of aids, so there's no way to go from aids to hiv.

The acronym HIV stands for "Human Immunodeficiency Virus".

HIV is an acronym for Human Immuno-deficiency Virus. As the name implies, the virus causes AIDS only in humans. However, very similar strains of Viruses that look like the virus that cause AIDS in humans have been found in animals such as chimpanzees and lions. In fact, it is commonly believed that HIV was first passed from chimps to humans who probably when chopping them up for food sustained cuts and in the process got infected. However, in the chimps, the virus does not seem to cause any disease because they have genes that inhibit the virus, which humans don't have. So when they passed to humans, the human immune system did not have any weapon to fight the virus. This is one danger of cross-infection across different species. A pathogen may be harmless in one specie but deadly in another. This is why organisations such as WHO take outbreak of animal diseases such as SARS very seriously, because nobody really knows how those diseases could turn out in humans when infected.

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Only if she is infected with HIV. If it is just a busted lip then no, you cannot.

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The problem with AIDS is a complex one. AIDS is more prevalent in sub-Saharan Africa than in most places worldwide. The issue there is very different to elsewhere. Girls in sub-Saharan Africa are very vulnerable. Nobody protects them, they are just expected to collect water from the well, lumber for the fire, and make clothes with their mother (etc.). While the girls are totally unsupervised, and even in the company of other girls, predators (humans, obviously) rape them. The same happens to women. The issue is that the situation is totally uncontrollable until the culture changes. You can't expect a rapist to wear a condom, especially if it is going to cost him. In this way, AIDS is able to spread rapidly. Mission work (i.e. religion) (though this may worsen the situation), emancipation and education of women and greater investment in an uncorrupted and effective police force may all help to improve the situation. This cannot happen until the country itself wants this change and has achieved at least a modicum of economic stability.

Another reason why HIV is spread in undeveloped countries is due to blood donation, as you can sell your blood for a fair sum. However, the needles are rarely properly sterilised, and there is plenty of opportunity for infection. To prevent the spread via this route, you have to either ensure that people can get a reasonable income via other means, or ensure that all medical equipment must be legally sterilised. It is a similar situation with drugs which are injected. The solution is to treat drug addicts by taking them off the streets, putting them into a rehab institute, and getting a productive citizen out the other end.

In a broader context, the spread of HIV/AIDS is much less of a problem in developed countries. In any situation in which AIDS has become an issue, the best solution is contraception, but it's always best to look into it. Increasingly, alcohol is responsible for irresponsible actions, especially among young people, which inevitably leads to the spread of any STD, including HIV. To combat this, raise the minimum age for alcohol consumption, raise awareness about the amount you should be drinking or make alcohol illegal.

Blocking HIV replication.

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It can take up to 60 days.

10% to 40% of people don't have any initial symptom's. HIV rash is not itchy and comes in cluster of welts mostly in the trunk area. For the first week a person will experience chronic fatigue and maybe some flu like symptom's. Stomach ache is also very common within the first few weeks. After about 3 weeks to 6 weeks from being exposed a person will develop swollen lymph nodes. Muscle twitching will also occur after about a month because by then the virus is in the brain and is destroying the nervous system.

After about 2-3 months a persons immune system will have stabilised the virus to the point where there will be no obvious symptom's. Within 10 years the virus will slowly but surely eat away at the persons white blood cells which will result in the person having a very poor immune system. Then a person will get a common infection such as the common flu and they will not be able to fight it off and as a consequence they will die.

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Transmission of HIV requires a substantial transfer of HIV infected bodily fluids. HIV does not survive long in a dry environment. Unless you wear the underwear as they are substantially wet with infected fluids AND you have open wounds that the fluids come in contact with, the likelihood of contracting HIV by wearing another's clothing is extremely remote.

Ryan White received AIDS from dirty needles giving to his mom by the Doctor. Ryan White's mother was to give him the needles 3 times a day.One day the Doctor gave his mother a dirty needle that contained a trace of AIDS.That is how Ryan White received AIDS.

By exchanging bodily fluids and letting them into your bloodstream. This includes unprotected sex, cleaning or coming in contact with blood without gloves, etc.

Saliva, unless consumed in great amounts, is not generally a risk.

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.

Seroconversion is the point at which the immune system is stimulated into developing the antibodies needed to fight infection (or respond to immunization) by an antigen (an antigen is anything that stimulates an immune response - including viruses, bacteria, tumorous cells, things to which we become allergic etc).

Seroconversion is frequently (but by no means always) associated with some form of seroconversion illness. In terms of an infection with HIV - the context in which the question was asked - it is important to note that it is the HIV antibodies devolved during the seroconversion process that are detected by the common HIV antibody test. It can take up to three months (the 'window period') for the immune response to be fully triggered and produce enough antibodies to be reliably detected by an HIV antibody test.

HIV seroconversion illness generally takes the form of a mild fever / sore throat / rash / mild flu-like illness - some two to six weeks (up to three months) after HIV infection - but can occasionally be severe enough to require hospitalisation. The longer the illness lasts (and the more severe it is) the more likely the untreated patient is to develop AIDS within five years. Even before seroconversion takes place, an HIV infected person will generally have enough of the virus in their blood / sexual fluids / breast milk to infect another person - in fact they are frequently particularly infectious during the window period, before a full immune response has been triggered and the infection can be diagnosed.

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the virus that causes AIDS. AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a condition that develops as a result of HIV infection. AIDS is diagnosed based on how well a person's immune system is functioning after HIV infection.