Info about HIV
AIDS/HIV facts are essential to prevention
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are two totally different things. Even though they are quite different, they still play a part with each other and are also surprisingly similar. HIV is a type of virus that eventually leads to the destruction of the body ending up as AIDS. Most people that are positive for HIV could go years and years without ever knowing that they have it because HIV affects your body slowly over time. The main function and goal of HIV is to damage your white blood cells. White blood cells are the cells that are able to combat sickness and disease. Without these white blood cells, your body's immune system will start to deteriorate making it difficult for your body to overcome any illnesses. Since HIV can usually take a while to have full control over your body, their is not a sure way to know that you have necessarily have AIDS even if you do get a diagnosed from a doctor saying that HIV is tested positive in your bloodstream.
With AIDS, AIDS does not come until HIV is done with its job by damaging all of your white blood cells so your body cannot fight the worse of what has yet to come. AIDS is the final stage of what takes place after HIV. HIV and AIDS are like some sort of chain. When one thing happens, which is the HIV, it leads to AIDS. Once the body's immune system is no more, the body then becomes an easy open target for any type of cancers and infections to enter into the body. These type of infections and diseases can work alongside with AIDS creating specific types of cancers such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, cytomegalovirus, and wasting syndrome are just a couple of diseases that could happen when AIDS take full effect.
Since the year of 1981, more than 25 million people have died from AIDS. In the continent of Africa, there are over 14 million AIDS orphans that have no one, most will not live to see the next day. Around the world, there are a staggering number of 33.4 million people carrying the AIDS virus and unfortunately there is not a cure. Most people wonder how you can get the HIV/AIDS virus. You can get AIDS by having unprotected sex without using condoms, the exchange of bodily fluids, sharing needles, breast feeding to a baby while HIV positive are all ways to get the HIV/AIDS virus. You cannot get the HIV/AIDS virus by donating blood, by being around someone with HIV/AIDS, or from insect bites.
Their are many ways to prevent the HIV/AIDS from happening to you by simply staying abstinent and keeping away from drugs which leads to sharing needles are all ways to keep you away from the HIV/AIDS virus. Many sex education classes are everywhere teaching abstinence, safe sex, and the importance of being cautious. Getting tested is also a great way to prevent the HIV/AIDS virus.