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HIV and AIDS
A deadly STD, the human immunodeficiency virus causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a condition which causes the immune system to fail. A pandemic, AIDS kills millions every year.
4,610 Questions
Does syphilis mean you have aids?
Syphilis cannot cause HIV. However, a syphilis sore makes it easier to catch HIV, and the diseases have many of the same risk factors and the same mode of transmission.
No. Syphilis is caused by a spirochete bacterium. HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, which as you might guess from the name is a virus.
Can you get hiv from smoking weed after someone?
Assuming saliva only is on the cigarette and you pass it back and forth to smoke with a HIV positive person, no you can't get HIV when smoking with someone.
What does it mean when someone says they have aids?
Aids is an Auto Immune Disease. It basically means they have a disease that is contagious through body fluids. AIDS is usually deadly when the HIV infection becomes full blown. Extreme care should be taken with bodily fluids from someone who is HIV positive, apart from this you should treat the person who has this devastating disease as normally as you would anyone else.
What does the Christian Aid symbol stand for?
Christian aid is a charity that helps people overcome poverty. They help over 50 country's, they send out doctors which give people gabs and medicine if they can not offord or receive medical help.
What are facts about HIV and STDs?
Yes, there are risk factors are person is probably taking to become infected with an STD. For example, unprotected sex. These are the same behaviors that put a person at a higher risk for HIV. If a person already has an STD, their immune system will be weakened, making them even more susceptible to HIV. In reverse, if the person already has HIV, their immune system will be weakened making them even more susceptible to STDs.
HIV and STDs are related in several ways:
- Both are transmitted via similar behaviors, namely sexual contact
- When people have another STD besides HIV, more HIV cells are produced (one enhances the other)
- People with both HIV and STDS run a higher risk of transmitting the virus
- Symptoms of both conditions tend be more long lasting and harder to treat (in other words, a herpes outbreak will probably be more severe in someone whose immune system is suppressed, as is the case in HIV)
Not by UT itself! But, with proper high potency supplementation, diet, exercise, pure water, sleep, sea salt; absolutely!
Can you get HIV from a needle prick?
If the fluid in the needle (I assume blood) does not contain the HIV virus, it is impossible to get HIV from the needle stick. If the blood in the needle is infected with HIV, then there is a fair chance the virus will be transmitted.
Are yeast infections a sign of HIV?
Although HIV would not normally be the first thing to be looking to in order to explain tonsillitis, tonsillitis (or symptoms similar to tonsillitis) can be a symptom of either seroconversion illness (the mild flu-like illness that some people suffer when their immune system starts producing HIV antibodies), or a sign of advanced HIV infection weakening the immune system. Tonsillitis is however a fairly common type of infection, so even if you think you have acquired it through intimate contact, the likelihood is that it will be some other sort of infection (or even an STD). If you are in any doubt you really should seek medical advice.
How many people in the world have HIV aids?
33.3 million people around the world are now living with HIV/AIDS (AS OF 2011)
Impact of HIV on an infected person?
HIV/AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease. It can also be transmitted through sharing needles, or from mother to breastfeeding child or from prengant mothers to babies.
You cannot be given AIDS, only HIV. HIV has several stages. You start at the first stage, and as your condition worsens, you travel through all of them.
The last stage is called AIDS.
So, how does HIV/AIDS affect a human life?
Sadly HIV/AIDS is nearly always fatal. This is because the infection attacks the white blood cells in the body. Without white blood cells, your body can't fix itself and fight off diseases and sickness.
It isn't actually HIV/AIDS that kills, but it is small things, like the flu, or pnemonia; because HIV/AIDS has destroyed the white bloood cells, and the body cannot fight off the basic sickness.
HIV/AIDS can be prevented by not sharing needles, and never have sex without a condom unless you are completely 100% sure that your partner has not got an STI, which usually means having a test.
Prescribed drugs can slow down the advancement of the Infeciton, but rarely can stop it completely.
Can AIDS be treated with antibiotics?
False. There is no cure yet for AIDS. Antibiotics work on bacteria. So if an AIDS patient gets a secondary bacterial infection, it would be appropriate for them to take antibiotics to help with the bacterial infection. AIDS is caused by the HIV virus, so antibiotics would be ineffective for treatment of the AIDS itself, just secondary infections associated with the AIDS. They are especially prone to these because of the lowered ability of AIDS patients' immune systems to fight disease.
What is Sinus and is there any cure?
Sinus is a tract with one end blind.It can be removed surgically.
What in a HIV test shows that you have HIV?
HIV tests test for (a sexually transmitted disease that can lead to AIDS)
You can get a blood test at a hospital or from a doctor (check the cost first). You can also get tested easy using a home test kits buy online. complete annoumous
It costs range from $15-$35 online
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.
Aids is transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk. This can be in throught the form of anal, vaginal, or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated needles, the exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids. This can be between men/woman, men/men, woman/woman.
Does HBV die as soon as it leaves the body and comes in contact with air?
No it does not, it lives for at least 7 days.
What are three ways HIV can be passed from one person to the other?
HIV can be transmitted from one individual to another through blood transfusion, exchange of bodly fluids (semen and vaginal secretions mainly; saliva in very few reported cases; no reported cases of sweat acting as an agent). Sharing of needles by intravenous drug users also transmits HIV. Mother to fetal transmission also occurs through the placenta.
How do people with aids and hiv act?
i think that most people will push them asside,i say that is wrong how must they feel:rejetid,unimportant and if they have no use or future?Love and care for them and one day the favour will be returned!!
Who is mostly affected by AIDs?
Homosexuals (gay men) are at high risk. Also at high risk are hetero men and women who have multiple sexual partners, Commercial sex workers and Men who indulge in sex with prostitutes. Injection drug users are also a high risk category.
Is the curing of AIDS possible by vaccination if not why?
Vaccination does not cure. It is a way to prevent disease by building immunity. It is hard to come up with a vaccine for AIDS because it affects the immune system itself, which is what vaccines affect.
Presently, there is no vaccine and no cure for AIDS. The available treatments can slow the progress of disease, but do not eliminate it.
What happens when HIV weakens the immune system?
This question is difficult to answer universally because every one is different. HIV is considered a lentivirus which means that it is slow-acting. The implications are that it will take some time before the immune system is so weakened that a person becomes truly ill.
From what we have seen, without treatment, a person with HIV will progress to AIDS in about 10 years, if not less. We see people in Africa progressing to AIDS much faster than patients in the United States and elsewhere.
