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the immune system and weakens people's surveillance
and defence systems against infections and some types
of cancer. As the virus destroys and impairs the
function of immune cells, infected individuals
gradually become immunodeficient.
Immunodeficiency results in increased susceptibility to
a wide range of infections and diseases that people
with healthy immune systems can fight off. The most
advanced stage of HIV infection is Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which can
take 10-15 years to develop. This stage is defined by
the development of certain cancers, infections, or other
severe clinical manifestations.
A deadly pandemic.
Transmission
HIV is transmitted through
unprotected sexual intercourse
(anal or vaginal), transfusion of
contaminated blood, sharing of
contaminated needles, and
between a mother and her infant
during pregnancy, childbirth and
breastfeeding.
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) targets
AIDS
&HIV
HIV can be transmitted via unprotected and close
contact with a variety of body fluids of infected
individuals, such as blood, breast milk, semen and
vaginal secretions. Individuals cannot become
infected through ordinary day-to-day contact such as
kissing, hugging, shaking hands, or sharing personal
objects, food or water.
Examples of HIV transmission routes include:
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-unprotected anal or vaginal sex with an
HIV- infected partner;
-mother-to-child transmission during
pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding;
-transfusion with HIV-infected blood
products;
-sharing of contaminated injection
equipment, tattooing, skin-piercing tools
and surgical equipment.
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a
retrovirus that infects cells of the immune
system, destroying or impairing their function.
As the infection progresses, the immune system
becomes weaker, and the person becomes
more susceptible to infections. The most
advanced stage of HIV infection is acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). It can take
10-15 years for an HIV-infected person to
develop AIDS; antiretroviral drugs can slow
down the process even further.
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People living with HIV today. Numbers are growing as
medicines to delay onset of AIDS are improving.
Treatment
HIV can be suppressed by combination
antiretroviral therapy (ART) consisting
of three or more antiretroviral (ARV)
drugs. ART does not cure HIV
infection but controls viral replication
within a person's body and allows an
individual's immune system to
strengthen and regain the power to
fight off infections. With ART, people
living with HIV can live healthy and
productive lives.
History of AIDS/HIV
In 1981, the first cases of AIDS
(Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome) were identified among gay
men in the United States, acquiring the
designation, GRID (Gay-Related
Immune Deficiency); however,
scientists later found evidence that the
disease existed in the world for some
years prior, i.e., subsequent analysis of
a blood sample of a Bantu man, who
died of an unidentified illness in the
Belgian Congo in 1959, made him the
first confirmed case of an HIV
infection.