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Content Overview About HIV
• What is HIV?
• What is AIDS?
• The HIV pandemic
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What Is HIV
Human: Infecting human beings
Immunodeficiency: Decrease or weakness in the
body’s ability to fight off infections and illnesses
Virus: A pathogen having the ability to replicate
only inside a living cell
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Aids is a disease in which there is a severe
loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly
lowering the resistance to infection and
malignancy
What is AIDS?
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The HIV Pandemic is infectious Knowledge.
AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome,
is an infectious disease caused by the human
immunodeficiency virus.
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What is The HIV pandemic
Notas del editor
Both produce the same patterns of illness. HIV2 causes a more slow progress of disease than those with HIV 1
It is important for tests to detect the HIV subtypes that are circulating in the region. Otherwise, testing may lead to false negative results.
This is the structure of the HIV virus. It looks like a spherical particle of 80 to 100 mm in diameter. Like all viruses, it is made up of 2 main elements: the external envelope, and the internal core.
HIV is a retrovirus
Viruses in general are made up of a core with RNA or DNA and sometimes an external envelope
HIV infection leads to a weakened immune system. This makes a person with HIV vulnerable to a group of illness, e.g., opportunistic infections, that would not as easily affect a healthy person
AIDS results when HIV infection progresses to an advanced stage, damaging the immune system to a point at which the body can no longer fight illness.
AIDS is a syndrome because it is characterized by a group of illnesses
Drugs are available which can treat HIV and AIDS.
These drugs are called antiretrovirals (ARVs). They prevent the virus from replicating and slow the progress of the disease, but there is still no cure for AIDS or vaccine to prevent HIV transmission.