According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HIV is an infection that is transmitted by multiple causes through sexual contact, transfusions with infected blood, or by used needles that has infected blood on it (aids.gov, 2009). These cases of transmissions create high risk of an attack of the human immune system. This virus ravages through the immune system at the cellular level (aids.gov, 2009). Through research, it is believed that the virus attaches itself to what’s called a dendritic cell that are found in the areas that line the mouth, the vagina, rectum, penis, and the upper gastrointestinal tract which are linked to a type of immune system cell(aids.gov, 2009). It spreads like wildfire by the dendritic cell carrying over to the human lymph nodes that can infect other immune system cells (aids.gov, 2009). The transmission of this virus attacks cells in your body that can spread into your immune system that can harm the way your body fights against bacteria and other sicknesses.
HIV and AIDS
The AIDS and HIV virus is a very dangerous disease that sees no race, no color, no gender, no economic background and not even a specific age group. It can affect anyone, at any time if they put themselves in a situation where they could be at risk. AIDS stands for what is called acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. The virus causes the body's immune system to break down and become useless in fighting illness and bacteria.
...a infected person can have HIV and still feel healthy. The best way one can protect theirself from HIV is practicing absitnece, but for those who are sexually active they should
First, some background information of HIV. HIV, as most of you know is human immunodeficiency virus, and as the name suggests, it affects your immune system. Specifically, it affects a type of white blood cell known as T cells. First, it takes over a T cell, and makes multiple copies of itself. The newly made viruses then leave the T cell and go on to infect and destroy other healthy T cells as they continue to multiply inside the body. T cells invaded by the virus can no longer properly fight infections....
AIDS
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS is caused
by the
HIV virus, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Most of the people get
the HIV virus
by having sexual intercourse with an infected person, sharing syringes
(when using
drugs or in cheap hospitals) with an infected person, some are also
born with the
disease or the babies drink the breast milk of an infected woman. Once
a body is
infected by the HIV virus, the human body produces antibodies to fight
the virus. A
blood test can reveal if someone has the HIV disease or not, if he or
she has the
disease, then he or she is HIV-positive.
HIV, also known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system. If left untreated, HIV reduces the number of CD4 cells in the body, which makes a person more likely to get infections or infection-related cancers. HIV can also lead to AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), if it is not being treated (aids.gov). There is no effective cure for HIV, however with proper treatment and medical care, HIV can be controlled. In
HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus which is a virus that attacks the human immune system. Once the body is unable to continue fighting the infection, the disease is more severe and known as AIDS. It usually takes more than 10 years to progress from the HIV virus to AIDS which is a deadly disease that has killed over than 25 million people around the world. HIV can be transmitted between people many different ways. Any kind of unprotected sexual intercourse is a very common way for HIV to be passed on. As well sharing needles, unsterilized tools for tattoos or piercings and exposure in health care settings. HIV can even be passed on to an infant during birth by their infected mother.
HIV is a virus that attacks the immune system of a person and weakens it so the body can no longer fight against illnesses. This virus kills the T-helper cell ( a type of white blood cell that fights off bacteria ), and creates copies of itself inside the T-helper cell. HIV is found in bodily fluids such as semen, blood, anal fluids, and breast milk. It cannot be transferred through bodily fluids such as sweat, saliva, or urine. The most common way of transmitting HIV is through unprotected sex, infected needles, drug taking equipment, or pregnancy and birth.
HIV is a virus that attacks the T-cell/ CD4 cell within the immune system and uses them to multiply itself. When finally it has attacked many of them it develops into AIDS" a virus that is dependent on humans and therefore, cannot multiply on its own" AVERT. The HIV virus can be broken down into:-
Introduction & Objectives
Launched in 1996, UNAIDS, the United Nations specialized organisation on the global epidemic HIV/AIDS has focused on several goals ranging from “reducing sexual transmission to closing the resource gap across countries, eliminating gender inequalities, strengthening HIV integration” (Goals, 2014) among others. HIV/AIDS is one of the deadliest and most serious health challenges of our century. It is of such grave importance that combating it became part of the 6th United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDGs) preceding the Millennium Summit in 2000.
Since the discovery of the virus in the early 1980s the number of HIV/AIDS related deaths have progressively lowered, especially and increasingly since the mid-2000s. However as the UNAIDS Executive Director, Michel Sidibe, pointed out in our agency’s 2013 annual report, AIDS remains an unfinished MDG that needs continuous effort and determination in order for it to be accomplished.