In the united states, hiv is spread mainly by having anal or vaginal sex or sharing injection drug equipment. There are many reasons for a young person to want information about. Thanks to new treatments, having hiv doesnt mean a person will develop aids, and its no. Learn more about how to protect yourself, and get information tailored to meet your needs from cdcs hiv risk reduction tool beta. People with aids have such badly damaged immune systems that they get an increasing number of severe illnesses, called opportunistic illnesses. Fact sheets about hivaids treatment information, the prevention of mothertochild transmission, and hiv treatment side effects. The type of sex act all unprotected acts of sexual penetration anal, vaginal, oral carry a risk of hiv transmission because they bring body fluids secreted during sex directly into contact with exposed mucous membranes the lining of the rectum, the vagina, the urethra and the mouth.
Regional office for the eastern mediterranean, joint united nations programme on hiv aids p. Untreated, hiv can progress to aids within a decade. Hivaids treatment and care world health organization. A person can also be diagnosed with aids if they have hiv and develop an opportunistic infection or cancer thats rare in people who dont have hiv. We look at symptoms, progression, transmission, medication, and management strategies. Introduction to hiv, aids and sexually transmitted. Hiv is spread through contact with the blood, semen, preseminal fluid, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids, or breast milk of a person with hiv. Untreated disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus hiv has a.
The latter aims to provide antiretroviral drugs for 2 million hivinfected people, to pre. Hiv is a virus spread through certain body fluids that attacks the bodys immune. Show full abstract knowledge of hivaids and the stability of the physicianpatient relationship. Introduction to hiv, aids and sexually transmitted infection surveillance. Aids and hiv infection example mollify page unaids. These germs can cause problems such as losing weight, bad diarrhoea, sores in the mouth, cough, pneumonia, tb, brain and nerve disease, swellings, fevers and sores. Many may not know the difference between hiv and aids. Essential information on personal history of hivaids treatment and care. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome aids aids is the most severe phase of hiv infection.
An opportunistic infection, such as pneumonia, is one that takes advantage of a unique situation, such as hiv. Without treatment, people with aids typically survive about 3 years. The difference between hiv and aids is growing more distinct by the day. In settings in which hiv is largely sexually transmitted, information and. A person living with aids becomes very weak and can get sick from many different germs. Aids is a condition that can arise from an advanced stage of infection with hiv. Surveillance of hiv risk behaviours world health organization. Questions and answers about hivaids department of health ny. Learn all about hiv and aids, including symptoms, diagnosis, treatments, life expectancy, and more.
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