HIV And AIDS

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loss of appetite, weight loss, tiredness, fever, night sweats, swollen lymph glands, skin rashes, diarrhea, tired ness, and poor resistance to infection, just to name a few.
The condition called AIDS represents a syndrome of late-stage diseases in which the immune system is unable to fight off viruses, bacteria, protozoa, and fungi resulting in infections and diseases, which frequently lead to death. AIDS symptoms are usually persistent, difficult to treat, and progressively weakening. AIDS symptoms may include:
Extreme tiredness, sometimes combined with headaches, dizziness, or lightheadedness, continued fever or night sweats, with loss of more than ten pounds that is not due to dieting or increased physical activity, swollen glands in the nick, armpits, or the groin, purple or discolored growths on the skin or the mucous membranes, heavy, continual dry cough that is not from smoking or that has lasted too long to be a cold or flu, continuing diarrhea, thrush, which may be accompanied by sore throat, unexplained bleeding from any body opening or from growths on the skin or mucous membranes, bruising more easily than usual, and progressive shortness of breath.
Unlike flu or measles, HIV is not transmitted through the air; it must get into the bloodstream to cause infection. Therefore HIV positive people don¡¦t pose a risk to others through any form of casual contact. There is no evidence that AIDS is transmitted through coughing, sneezing, food preparation, drinking fountains, toilet seats, mosquitoes, being around an infected person on a daily basis, or donating blood. HIV is carried in blood, semen, vaginal secretions, breast milk and other bodily fluids of an infected person. It is transmitted from one person to another by three routes: through sexual intercourse including vaginal intercourse, oral intercourse, and anal intercourse, through blood to blood exposure to infected blood, and form infected women to their infants bef...