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HIV and AIDS. What Are HIV and AIDS. AIDS- Acquired I mmune D eficiency Syndrome, is a serious viral disease that destroys the body’s immune system HIV-The virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) that causes AIDS.
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What Are HIV and AIDS • AIDS- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, is a serious viral disease that destroys the body’s immune system • HIV-The virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) that causes AIDS. • Of the 40,000 new HIV infections each year, half of those occur in people younger than 25 years old • HIV is a Virus, AIDS is a Disease that results from an HIV virus infection. • A person can have HIV and not AIDS • Incubation Period- from the time a person has been infected with the HIV virus, until the individual shows symptoms. • First four cases 1981, first known case was 1959 • Most individuals infected with HIV develop AIDS and die!!!!
Where Did It Come From? • Not known for sure where it came. • Believed to be from Central Africa, now a global problem(epidemic) • Worldwide approximately one in 100 adults aged 15 to 49 is infected with HIV • Monkey virus similar to HIV virus believed to be the cause.
How is it Spread? • Sexual Contact • Most common way HIV is spread • Not only sexual intercourse, can be transmitted through oral sex. • Sharing Needles • Blood Transfusion • Mother to Child
The Effects of AIDS on the Body • Fights your Immune System • Opportunistic Infection- an infection that happens only in people whose immune systems are not working very well. • People die from this, or cancers • Lungs • Pneumonia • Skin • Sarcoma • Nervous System • Functional problems • Digestive system • Diarrhea
How HIV and AIDS are Treated Combination Therapy- a combination of several drugs • Drugs slow the reproduction of the HIV Virus, and lengthen Incubation period. • No real treatment for AIDS, once developed other ailments are treated. • HIV/AIDS Epidemic • Large Cities mostly effected • Africa is hardest hit continent • Spreading in Asia • Spreading in under developed countries • 40 million people infected, 22 million have died from it