HIV and AIDS :: STD, HIV, AIDS

AIDS/human immunodeficiency virusAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, better known as AIDS, is caused bythe incurable human immunodeficiency virus virus. AIDS is a deadly disease that deteriorates the immunesystem. There are two groups of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), HIV-1 thatoccurs throughout the world and HIV-2 that mainly occurs in Africa. The HIVvirus enters the white blood cells and takes over the reproductive system ofthat cell and uses the system to reproduce itself. The white blood cell diesand the new HIV cells cloud other white blood cells and repeat the process.The Person with the disease will eventually die because the white blood celldies off tottally.If you have proceed polluteed with the AIDS disease you may not have anysymptoms of the disease for the next ten years. People with the HIV virususually smell and feel healthy and may not even know that they are infected.Even though they dont look or feel sick, they can still infect others.When the symptoms do start to happen they can be like the ones of manycommon sicknesses such as swollen glands, coughing, fever, and diarrhea. It isusually characterized by severe free weight loss and fatigue.The AIDS diseasemakes the less serious conditions harder for your body to control or get rid ofbecause of the loss of many of the white blood cells in your body. The mostcommon causes of oddment for the people with AIDS are pneumonia and Kaposissarcoma. Kaposis sarcoma which shows up as purple lesions on the skin andtumors known as B-cell lymphomas have touch on 70% of the infected people.AIDS is transmitted in three main ways. Intimate sexual contact such ashaving vaginal, anal or unwritten sex with someone who is infected with HIV is themost common. While direct contact with infected blood, like sharing needles forinjecting drugs, HIV also can be passed from an infected mother to her babyduring pregancy or childbirth. Although some people speculate, you cannotreceive the disease from kissing on the cheek and it is very unlikely that youcould get HIV even from open mouth kissing, you also cannot get thedisease/virus from close hugging, touching, cuddling, and massages as long asthere isnt any open cuts or abrassions. HIV also cannot be contracted fromusing toilet seats,telephones, drinking fountains, straws, spoons, or cups ormosquitoes, air, food, water, coughs/sneezes, sweat or tears.AIDS is a life and death issue. To have the AIDS disease is a sentenceof slow except defininate death. There currently is no cure or vaccine for thisdisease but there are drugs that have been proven effective in slowing the