AIDS, Life or Death?

AIDS - Life or Death?

Imagine this, one morning you wakeup next to someone who you only

know by their first name. You can't believe you took this person home with

you. Then a month later you find out that by sleeping with this person you

have contracted the HIV virus. All your goals and dreams shattered by a one

night stand.

I hope to inform you about the AIDS and HIV disease. Also, I am

going to explain to you what it is, who it affects and how it is passed.

How to prevent yourself from getting it and treatments for it.

HIV is characterized by a gradual breakdown of the immune system.

Mostly common sicknesses. A healthy person has 800 to 1200 CD4 tecells per

cubic millimeter of blood. Found in HIV this number progressivly declines.

Where a persons cells drop below 200, the body is greatly vulnerable to

sicknesses and cancers that start the end stage of HIV-AIDS.

AIDS is characterized by having your immune system devastated by

HIV. You have AIDS if on contracts certain kinds of puenomia of rare types

of cancer. After contracting AIDS you will likely die in a very short

amount of time.

First, when it originated. AID's originated somewhere in Africa

about 25-30 years ago and was thought to have been brought here in the

'70's. It first appeared in heterosexuals of both the sexes. It was

probably spread so quickly through female prostitutes. AID's has already

become a crisis of staggering proportions in parts of Africa. In Zaire, it

is estimated that 20% of their people carry the virus. That is 2 out of

every 10 people you see walking down the street. And that figure is

increasing. And if no cure is found that same thing will happen here in

the United States.

AID's was first seen only seen as a gay made disease in this

country. That was because of the numerous parteners an average gay male

had, but that statement is totally false. The HIV virus knows no skin

color, sex, age, or gender. It can infect you, me, or anybody else, gay or

straight. It can also affect rich and famous to the every day person.

Since 1981, out of 500,000 reported cases, 900,000 more may have HIV.

Currently growing most rapidly in minorities.

You can't get it by causual contact like shaking hands or hugging.

Although traces have been found in salva to prove that you can't get it

through kissing. There is no evidence that sharing food or eating utensils.

The same is for coughing and sneezing.