AIDS

WHAT IS AIDS? AIDS is a disease caused by a virus called HIV that causes the destruction of the immunologic system of the person who suffers it.

WHAT’S THE DIFERENCE BETWEEN HIV & AIDS?

HIV: Human Immunodeficiency Virus

AIDS: Acquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome

AIDS are the symptoms that the HIV causes.

WHAT TYPE OF VIRUS IS HIV?

HIV is a retrovirus (organism that do the retro transcription). Also it is a lentivirus (is a genus of retroviruses that cause chronic and deadly diseases characterized by long incubation periods, in man and other mammalian species).

HOW DO YOU GET INFECTED?

You can get infected for all type of contact of your internal fluids with an infected person. Fluids like semen or vaginal fluids at the sex relation or contact of blood when you are taking drugs with another people. Also a mother that is infected can infect her son with her milk or when the foetus is in process of desenvolupation.

 WHAT’S THE ORIGIN OF THIS VIRUS?

The origin of HIV is an animal virus SIV that affects chimpanzees. Now you may be asking yourselves, how can an animal virus produce a disease in a human? The answer is simple. The traffickers of animals hunt infected animals and the virus infect the humans. The immunologic system defeat the SIV but after some infection the virus mute to HIV.

WHAT ARE THE FEATURES OF THE TWO TYPES? (HIV1 & HIV2)

The number of virus of the HIV1 is more than the HIV2 for that reason is more aggressive and its time to produce symptoms is less. The way of transmission are the same for both virus.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUFFER AIDS?

The level is so less because the virus use the white blood cell to reproduce himself.

Pneumonia: is an inflammatory condition of the lung affecting primarily the microscopic air sacs known as alveoli. Typical signs and symptoms include a varying severity and combination of productive or dry cough, chest pain, fever, and trouble breathing, depending on the underlying cause.

Toxoplasmosis: is a parasitic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Infections with toxoplasmosis usually cause no symptoms in adult humans. Occasionally there may be a few weeks or months of mild flu-like illness such as muscle aches and tender lymph nodes. In a small number of people, eye problems may develop. In those with a weak immune system, severe symptoms such as seizures and poor coordination may occur. If infected during pregnancy, a condition known as congenital toxoplasmosis may affect the child.

Kaposi’s sarcoma: is a tumor caused by infection with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV8), also known as Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) or KS agent. It was originally described by Moritz Kaposi, a Hungarian dermatologist practicing at the University of Vienna in 1872. It became more widely known as one of the AIDS-defining illnesses in the 1980s. The viral cause for this cancer was discovered in 1994. Although KS is now well-established to be caused by a viral infection, there is widespread lack of awareness of this even among persons at risk for KSHV/HHV-8 infection.

Mycobacterium Avium complex: is an atypical mycobacterial infection, i.e. one with nontuberculous mycobacteria or NTM, caused by Mycobacterium avium complex. This infection causes respiratory illness in birds, pigs, and humans, especially in immunocompromised people. In the later stages of AIDS it can be very severe. It usually first presents as a persistent cough. It is typically treated with a series of three antibiotics for a period of at least six months.

Invasive cervical cancer: is a cancer arising from the cervix. It is due to the abnormal growth of cells that have the ability to invade or spread to other parts of the body. Early on, typically no symptoms are seen. Later symptoms may include abnormal vaginal bleeding, pelvic pain, or pain during sexual intercourse. While bleeding after sex may not be serious, it may also indicate the presence of cervical cancer.

AT THE MOMENT, HAVE WE GOT SOMETHING TO HEAL AIDS?

The answer to this question is no but, have the people got hope of survive when they got infect from VIH?
Nowadays we don’t have any medication to heal AIDS but we have some pills that reduce its effect and bring you the opportunity to have got a normal life.

Also, all the people can’t buy these pills because these pills are so expensive.

WHAT ARE THE METODS TO PREVENT AIDS?

When I ask you this you can thing: oh this answer is so easy you mustn’t have sex and that’s it. But, can you live without it? Luckily, nowadays, we have got some methods to  have secure sex like condoms and women preservatives. 

Have you know what is a retrovirus?

Have you know how many types of HIV exist?

Have you know the name of some famous that have got AIDS?

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Do you thing that the humans can discover a medication to heal AIDS?

Do you thing that in a future the humans use AIDS like a biologic arm? Why?