AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. How do you get them? You might start with HIV and then later on develope into AIDS . The blood, vaginal fluid, semen, and breast milk of people infected with HIV has enough of the virus in it to infect other people. You might get HIV and not even know it. Here is how you can get it: having sex with and infected person, sharing a needle with an infected person and if you had a baby and you are infected the baby will also have HIV. How do you know if your positive? Within a few weeks after being infected, some people get fever, headache, sore muscles and joints, stomach ache, swollen lymph glands, or a skin rash for one or two weeks. How do you know if you have AIDS? HIV disease becomes AIDS when your immune system is seriously damaged. There is no cure for AIDS, and you might have to take medication and not just one for the rest of your life.There is no way to "clear" the HIV out of your body. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/aids.html
HIV/AIDS is a serious illness that has increased in occurrence over the past few years. You cannot tell if a person is infected or not, and some people will think they are safe from contracting the disease because there are no visible symptons. Like Kat said, there is no cure. I hope we will be able to develop a cure by advancing our technology. The images you have show the reality of HIV/AIDS. They definitely open our eyes to the one of the many kinds of horrible diseases roaming our world. You had good information, Kat!
ReplyDeleteThis is really good and very informative. I hope we can find cures in the future. :)
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