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AIDS Statistic

This year marks 30 years since the first AIDS cases were reported in USA. Although there are some optimistic signs that someday this infection will be possible to cure, like the case of Timothy Ray Brown cure or medicine for AIDS is still far-reaching goal. HIV / AIDS Statistic As this is the anniversary year, we want to summarize some balance, to give you some facts, something like HIV /

World AIDS Day

First of December is the day devoted to AIDS, it is also known as Worlds AIDS day. It’s a time when people all around the world gather in all big cities to show support to people diagnosed with HIV virus, finding new ways and ideas in how to combat and this terrible disease. World’s AIDS day is also used to educate people when it comes to prevention, prejudice, and enables

HIV and the body

HIV stands for a Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and it is basically a virus which depletes human organism of antibodies that fight infections, viruses and bacteria. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, and that’s when number of body’s CD4 cells subside under 200 per cubic millimeter, leaving the organism open for opportunistic infections. Opportunistic infection is a name for diseases related to HIV and the body that’s in a stage

Risk for HIV

To know more about Risk for HIV we need to know what it is and how it is transmitted. HIV is a disease which lowers the antibodies count in our immune system until they not able to defend an organism from a basic infection, or bacteria attack, that’s when HIV develops into AIDS. There a basically three ways how HIV gets transmitted, through a sexual intercourse with a infected person,

HIV Infection

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus, which means that virus destroys persons immune system and leaves the organism unprotected. Virus contains double RNA gene, and uses the enzymes to converts its RNA to DNA than it incorporates itself into the gene of the host and that’s when it becomes a provirus. We can divide HIV Infection in four stages, first stage is primary infection, second stage is clinic asymptomatic, third

AIDS History

An AIDS is a disease which affects human immune system, the term HIV stands for Human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS through time kills cells that make up our immune system and defend the human body from variety of diseases, tumor cells, different viruses, parasites and other harmful microorganisms. There is a big difference between individuals that are HIV positive and those that have fully developed AIDS disease. Term HIV positive only

HIV and AIDS treatment

There are some standards in AIDS / HIV treatment. It is based on hospitalization, hospital daily treatment and outpatient care. Hospital treatment is indicated in treatment of patients who are infected with some difficult opportunistic infections or tumor, when it is required to apply intravenous therapy, or when some more complicated procedures are required ( like biopsy ). Patients with highly active antiretroviral therapy ( HAART ), and infected patients,

HIV and AIDS in Africa

Statistics predicts continual growth of number of HIV infected people in Africa. There is several reasons for that: lack of money, low level of education, poverty, war conflicts and myths about what causes AIDS ( many of African politicians, even scientists, still deny that HIV causes AIDS – they say it is poverty!!! ). Serious scientists, however, claim that majority of infections comes from unsafe sexual activity, even if, approximately

AIDS in USA

History of AIDS in USA First AIDS patient in USA was infected immigrant from Haiti, back in 1969. AIDS was, in first time, identified as gay infection. First AIDS victims were gays, so, it seemed that unprotected anal sex was cause of this rare and dangerous infection. Shortly, the list of infected included drug users, heterosexuals, bisexuals and even babies. During 1980′s, few actors from porno industry died from AIDS

What Does HIV Stand For?

Shortly, HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus.  This is very dangerous virus that attacks and destroys human cells and antibodies, which, in normal state, serve to defend human organism from various types of infections and viruses.  So, in that way, human organism become weak and unable to defend itself.  HIV is, then, spreading through human body with help of those virus affected antibodies, and body liquors . There is still