HIV/AIDS

By Owen Hart

What are HIV/AIDS?

• HIV stands for Human immunodeficiency virus

• AIDS stands for Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

• HIV/AIDS is a disease that takes over cells that would usually help to protect you from viruses

• A disease that can be given to other people and infects someone very quickly

What do HIV/AIDS Do?

• A disease that infects the immune system

• Invades and infects T-cells and CD4 cells that usually fight off diseases

• Makes you prone to any disease and you will have no defense because of this

Symptoms or Signs

• Many common symptoms include:

• Fevers/Headaches

• Sore throat

• Rashes

• Lack of energy or weight loss

How is it Transferred?

• Transmitted sexually

• Given to babies through breastfeeding

• Sharing injection needles

• Not transmitted by contact with the person

Ways to Control HIV/AIDS

• Keeping a person with the disease dormant

• People have tried to control it but it spreads too quickly and uses the immune system to replicate

• Some become drug resistant which means that the drug becomes ineffective

• When you get HIV and you take medicine to prevent you from getting AIDS

Cures or Solutions• There is no real cure fore HIV/AIDS at

the moment

• You can use a antiretroviral treatment to suppress the infection, but it doesn’t completly stop the virus

• Remove every one of the infected cells in the body

Cases of HIV/AIDS• 33.3 Million people were infected with

HIV/Aids in 2009

• 16.6 million woman were infected in 2009 and 76% were living in Africa

• 370,00 children had it in 2009

• Each day about 5,000 people die from AIDS

• 67% of all people with AIDS live in Sub-Saharan Africa

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