Cause Of Discrimination Of Aids

AIDS is acquired immunodeficiency virus. Is a disease caused by infection from a virus called HIV.
The illness interferes whit the immune system, making people with AIDS much more likely to getinfections.
Some people exposed to HIV do not develop AIDS. A few suffer symptoms suchs as longlasting fever, lymph node swelling, persistent diarrhea, night sweat and weigth lose.
ALL people infectedwith HIV can spread it to others.HIV is carried in blood, semen and vaginal secretion.
Treatments for AIDS can slow the progress of the disease. But There is no known a cure .Antiretroviral treatmentreduces both the deaths and new infections from Hiv, but these drugs are expensive and the medications are not available in all countries.
The median time of progression from hiv to aids is nine toten years, and the median survival time after developing aids is only nine to two months.
Many factors affect the rate of progression. These include factors that influence the body´s ability todefend against hiv such as the infected person´s general immune function.
Prevention:
The three main transmission routes of hiv are sexual contact, exposure to infected body fluids, and from mother tofetus or child during the perinatal period. Its possible to find hiv in the saliva, tears, and urine of infected individuals, but there are no recorded cases of infection by these secretions, and therisk of infection is negligible. Anti-retroviral treatment of infected patients also significantly reduces their ability to transmit hiv to others, by reducing the amount of virus in their bodilyfluids to undetectable levels.
There are many misconceptions about hiv and aids. Three of the most common are that aids can spread through casual contact (such as shaking hands, hugging, or a casualkiss), that sexual intercourse whit a virgin will cure aids, and that hiv can infect only homosexual men and drug users.
The best defence is to reduce the risk of exposure:
- Abstain from sex, or...