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 them to get tested for free. There is a lot of discrimination toward people infected with HIV virus, but for patients it’s easier to fight discrimination than the disease which always at the end wins.

Federation of Red Cross said that in the world there are at least 33 million people infected with HIV virus. They also said that the disease is stagnating in the regions beneath Sahara in Africa but that it showed more development in the areas of Eastern Europe, and in some parts of Asia. In the recent study of Russian authorities there are 417.208 people infected with HIV in Russia. World Health Organization estimated that around 2.2 million people died worldwide in 2008 due to complications from AIDS. UNAIDS report stated that in South African region there has been an increase in numbers when it comes to teenagers and kids under fifteen, there has been an increase from 1.6 million in 2001 to 2 million in 2007. Almost 90% of infected kids live in the region beneath the Sahara desert.

AIDS is an incurable infective disease, which represents the last phase of the human immunodeficiency virus, and is defined as the collection of symptoms which result in weakening and destruction of the immune system, which leaves the organism unable to battle any other disease or infection. AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. We should know the difference between HIV positive person and the person who has AIDS. Those are connected but different terms, HIV positive means that individual is infected with HIV virus while AIDS indicates that person is in the last phase of the disease before the death.

HIV positive person can look healthy and do anything just like any normal person, and as long as 10 years can pass before the disease shows any symptoms.World AIDS Day

You can not get infected by HIV in normal social activities like swimming in a pool, or if you are sitting at the same table as the infected person, or playing sports, HIV virus can get transferred in only three ways and those are: unprotected sex, by infected blood, or from a mother to baby.

While the virus is mostly passed through unprotected sex, best way we can do to keep ourselves safe is to use a latex condom. Second way to transfer the virus is through dirty needle, drug users pass the virus by using the same needle over and over, it can also be passed through any of the objects used by drug fiends that come into contact with blood.

There is about 15-30% chance of passing the virus from mother through baby by the birth or by the breastfeeding.

For organism to get infected virus needs to come in contact with blood, where it traps the core of the cd4 cells and multiplies. There are about 1200 of these cells in the healthy organism. Result of the infection is the death of the cd4 cells and the overall decrease of cd4 cells in organism.

Death of the infected individuals does not com from the presence of the HIV virus but from the systematic damage to the immune system, after a while organism becomes to weak to battle any of the infections and the diseases found around us in everyday life.

Disease has 4 phases from which last one AIDS is the worst one and brings out the worst symptoms. For now there is no cure for AIDS and there is no vaccine, there are only some medications that combat some of the symptoms of that disease.

 

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