Bethany Mendoza's List: Aids

• acquired immune deficiency syndrom

  • aids stands for 'acquired immune deficiency syndrome
• People with HIV are said to have AIDS when they develop certain infections or cancers or when their CD4

  • ppl officially have aids when they develop an infection or their t-cell count is less than 200

• HIV, is the virus that causes AIDS

  • Hiv causes aids, weakens a persons ability to fight infections
• contracted through unprotected sex or needle sharing

  • contracted by having unprotected sex or by sharing needles
• weakens a person's ability to fight infections

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• During this period without symptoms, HIV is slowly killing the CD4 T-cells and destroying the immune system
• For an HIV-infected person, the number of CD4 T-cells steadily drops, making them vulnerable to other infections -- and in danger of developing AIDS.

• People at high risk of getting HIV include
• Injection drug users who share needles
• Infants born to mothers with HIV who did not receive HIV treatment during pregnancy
• unprotected sex
• received blood transfusions or clotting products between 1977 and 1985
• such as injection drug use or anal sex)
• Only blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk have been shown to transmit infection to others.

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