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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
How does hiv affect the body and disrupt its homeostasis?
HIV prevents the body from maintaining homeostasis by disrupting the body's ability to fight disease.
When a person's immune system is healthy and functioning, it is able to ward off many pathogens, virtually unnoticed. Our skin, saliva, tears, mucous membranes, all parts of the immune system, are effective barriers against many bacteria, virus and other microorganisms.
However, when the immune system is damaged in some way, in this case by the HIV virus, that balance between pathogens in the environment and our ability to fight them off effectively, is destroyed.
Ultimately, the body's immune system is depleted. Disease sets in. The body can no longer fight disease off, and the person begins a decline that will eventually result in death.
How true is that a blood type can not be infected by HİV?
I could be wrong but I don't think the blood type O-negative can be affected by HIV and AIDS because the infection cannot bind with the blood cells.
How does a person acquire the HIV virus?
You don't actually "get" AIDS. You might get infected with HIV, and later you might develop AIDS. You can get infected with HIV from anyone who's infected, even if they don't look sick and even if they haven't tested HIV-positive yet. The blood, vaginal fluid, semen, and breast milk of people infected with HIV has enough of the virus in it to infect other people. Most people get the HIV virus by:
* having sex with an infected person * sharing a needle (shooting drugs) with someone who's infected * being born when their mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected woman Getting a transfusion of infected blood used to be a way people got AIDS, but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and the risk is extremely low.
What syndrome developes as the HIV virus infects and destroys the T cells of the immune system?
Any virus flu pneumonia some types of cancers also and other sexual diseases if having unprotected sex
What is the role of reverse transcriptase?
Reverse transcriptase is the viral enzyme responsible for making a DNA copy of the RNA genome from a retrovirus. As such, it is technically known as an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase. This is opposite to the usual flow of genetic information from DNA to RNA to protein. This allows a virus with an RNA genome to make copies of itself that can be integrated into the DNA of its host.
Can you get HIV by physically touching?
No.HIV is transfered only when there is blood contact with the infected person.
It is an acronym from the description of what was known about the disease.
A = acquired (it is passed between people)
I = immune (it affects your immune system)
D = deficiency (it reduces your immune system)
S = syndrome (it describes a range or symptoms and infections)
Hepatitis C and HIV are different infections caused by different viruses. They do share many risk factors for infections.
Why do people refuse to get tested for HIV?
To put it simply, HIV attacks or uses some of your white blood cells, specifically CD4+ T-lymphocytes, as "factories" for replication of the the virus. This replication causes the CD4+ cell to die after it has prouced copies of HIV. These CD4 cells are the cell you body would use to attack the virus itself. So essentially, the HIV virus uses your own specific defenses against itself to assure its survival.
Is there a cure for hivand aids?
The current medical research on cures for HIV and AIDS looks very promising.
...However, the current approach of HIV drug maintenance can keep patients alive, at a cost of $300 - $2,500 PER PATIENT/PER MONTH *INDEFINITELY*
This profits pharmaceutical companies at approaching $10,000,000,000.00 per year.
Over the course of the next few decades, this will likely grow to exceed $1,000,000,000,000.00 per year.
A cure would instantly eliminate this entire profit margin.
What do you think a pharmaceutical company (and its stockholders) would do if they came up with a cure?
If a cure comes, it will almost certainly come from the academic community. In fact, a cure might already exist.
Answer:
Almost certainly. However, the genetics invovled are remarkabke, surprising and complex. AIDS for instance is not one "germ" -- it's a syndrome cause by HIV, which in turn is highly mutable (it changes a lot), making a vaccine very hard to develop.
There's a huge amount of money and research going into this. If you like to hear about silver linings in dark clouds, you should expect to see some remarkable improvements in other areas of healthcare (notably cancer treatment) once this cure is nailed bown
AnswerThe simple truth is that we just do not know.
Although modern antiretroviral drugs can now help your immune system to destroy HIV
at a faster rate than it can replicate, there are still a number of major obstacles that, on balance, seem to make it unlikely that a cure will be found in the foreseeable future.
The first problem is that whilst modern antiretroviral drugs are very good at suppressing levels of HIV in the blood and the major life-supporting organs of the body; they tend to be much less effective at suppressing HIV in place like the testicles, prostate and brain. In fact, very few antiretroviral drugs have any significant effect on HIV levels in the brain .. and those that do cause side effects that are quite simply unbearable for a small, but significant, proportion of patients.
This means that despite it being possible for a supported immune system to destroy far more HIV than is being replicated, there are almost always isolated, but highly active, reservoirs of rapidly reproducing HIV somewhere in the body.
The second problem is that HIV actually modifies the genetic material of an infected cell - so once a cell is infected, it stays infected until it dies (or is destroyed by the immune system).
In order to detect an infected cell that needs to be destroyed, the immune system relies on being able to identify those cells in which HIV is actively reproducing.
Unfortunately, because HIV also has the ability to lay dormant for many decades, not all infected cells are actively reproducing HIV .. meaning that even if a means were found to kill all actively reproducing infected cells in the body, there would still be huge reservoirs of dormant HIV waiting to spring into life at a later date.
Rather than curing the people who are currently infected, the next big step in controlling the spread of HIV seems most likely to come from one of several potential vaccines; but even this is complicated and is unlikely ever to be able to provide 100% protection from infection.
Some viruses - and HIV is one of them - are able to mutate and change their appearance. This means that different antibodies are required to fight different mutations (it is exactly the same principle by which getting a common cold, or the flu, does not protect you from the huge number of other cold and flu variants in circulation .. and why flu vaccines do not provide protection against all forms of the flu).
It is therefore likely that any HIV vaccine - just like any flu vaccine - will only be able to provide a degree of protection against a certain number of the more common and aggressive HIV mutations.
All of that said, HIV research is a very rapidly moving moving field of medical science; so we should remain optimistic.
Fifteen years ago, we had no effective means of controlling HIV and infection seemed like an almost certain death sentence. Today, HIV is increasingly seen as just an unpleasant life sentence to an ever more manageable chronic condition.
Who really knows where we will be in another fifteen years?
AnswerYes in school i am learning about htis there is only VERY expensive pills u can take that u only take the HIV and "put it in the corner"
Alternative AnswerPossibly yes, if you consider alternative medicine like Nick Nolte and Magic Johnson and others.
1984 U.S. Patent #4,647,773 Method of continuous production of retroviruses (HTLV-III) from patients with AIDS and pre-AIDS (Dr. Robert C. Gallo, et. al.)
1990 U.S. Patent #5,188,738 Alternating current supplied electrically conductive method and system for treatment of blood and / or synthetic fluids with electrical forces. (Dr. Steven Kaali, et. al.)
1997 U.S. Patent #5,676,977 Method of curing AIDS with tetrasilver tetroxide molecular crystal devices (Marvin S. Antelman, Israel)
A person treated using the 1997 patented one-time injection claims to be HIV-free several years afterwards. Starting in 2003 Dr. Boyd Ed Graves has petitioned the US courts and US congress to institute funding for clinical trials. Microsoft's Bill Gates was notified that the HIV AIDS cure had been tested on subjects and known to work.
According to Dr. Robert C. Beck, DSc. Physics, slightly over 2 thousands AIDS patients in Southern California having undergone "The Beck Protocol" that is derived from the Dr. Steven Kaali MD method were pronounced as having PCR tests indicating that they had viral loads indistinguishable from zero on the measurement equipment used to conduct such testing.
Magic Johnson, a long known HIV AIDS patient, has undergone unconventional therapies (in either Germany or Cuba or India or Mexico) such as medical grade intravenous (IV) ozone treatments and has survived many years (supposedly with the disease). (See Dr. Robert Rowen MD Describes Benefits of Ozone Therapy).
An intracellular compound that is a mixture of DMSO, chlorine dioxide, citric acid, and other ingredients is being discussed in alternative medicine blogs as having a profound immune system enhancing effect. The mixture ingredients have been changed slightly over the past few years, but has come to be known as the Overnight Cancer Cure.
A German HIV AIDS patient who also had leukemia was cured of AIDS when the German doctor treating his leukemia irradiated his bone marrow, then genetically screened marrow and stem cell donors for a genetic resistance / immunity to HIV. After the bone marrow and stem cell transplant was completed, the patient's HIV AIDS disappeared.
See the huge list of related links in the Related Question "Can HIV be cured?" and especially, "Is there a cure for HIV AIDS?" below ...
AnswerThere may be. Doctors are working very hard on it.
Is a stinging sensation while urinating a symptom of an AIDs?
Stinging in the genitals is a symptom of an infection.
Why did the figures for HIV and AIDs increase?
Because the gay community has become more acceptable. believe it or not, anal and oral sex are very common spots for STI's to form, so gays are very vulnerable
What company produces Band Aids?
The Band Aid name is a trademark name owned solely by Johnson and Johnson. Even though there are other popular brands of bandages, like Curad, they are all known by the slang name Band Aid! This is just one of the many little products that makes J+J a giant!
Can you get hepatitis or HIV from body fluids?
Food, or contact with mucus membranes can spread either of those.
Would HIV show up after 4 years of testing?
Fairly accurate. The window period for HIV is rather long, up to six months. This means that the person can be infected for six months without developing enough antibodies for a standard HIV test to detect. However, that is more the exception than the rule.
To be more certain, a person may want to test again at the 6 month period.
Why is HIV not considered living?
HIV is a virus, and since viruses require another organism to carry out the functions that would classify it as a living organism, it's considered "dead," that is until it finds a host.
People with aids look normal.
The only to get aids is to have sex.
or....
If you drink from there glass because it is found in your spit.
To get AIDS it is found in spit, pee, blood, or any fluids in your body.
Why are HIV treatments ineffective?
* I believe the question is more related to a cure for HIV, for which i think the main reason they havent found a cure is that when you are trying to kill a body, first you need to target it, and that applies for every case in this world, otherwise you end up killing everything around. When you kill a bacteria you first have to know what type of bacteria is in order to know what type of antibiotic use. Viruses are harder to kill, since the size of them is soo small we havent been able to identify some of them ( including HIV). When Gallo discovered the HIV virus, what he really saw was a protein chain associated to it, but according to the rules of isolation for viruses, the HIV has never been seen isolated to date. That could be a reason why we dont have a cure, since instead killing the virus we are just making its road trip more complicated preventing it from multiply, or penetrate the T cells. In fact there are some scientifics that belive AIDS is not caused ofr such virus, but for a genetic degeneration some people have, and that their trigger is activated after an infection for an STD, or any other breakdowns of the inmune system. * This is really not true. There are treatments today that are effective when HIV is diagnosed early enough. The problem is that most individuals contract HIV unawares, thus it is only recognized after it has reached advanced stages.
Effective new drug therapies are keeping HIV-infected persons healthy longer and are dramatically reducing the death rate. However, prevention-both biomedical and behavioral-is the best hope for further reducing the spread of HIV.
Why might a person think that they did not get infected with HIV?
Someone might not know they were infected with HIV because early infection often has no symptoms. Both the patient and the one who infected him or her may have no idea that they were at risk.
Why peoples engage in dangerous behaviors?
attention seeker , emotional and pscyhological disturbance
Can HIV transmit through clothes?
Two possibilities: first it could turn inactive and "sleep" but i think second: it will die within some days. If you ask, couse you got some sperm on your clothing: The Virus can only infect you when it's getting directly in your bloodlines.
