HIV AIDS symptoms

HIV/AIDS such a disease there is no cure of it, but it can be prevented by awareness and proper medications. HIV medications also help prevent HIV transmission and the progression of HIV to AIDS, greatly prolonging lives. HIV symptoms & AIDS symptoms are many

What Exactly Is HIV/AIDS?

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. This is severely damages the immune system. It defeats the body’s ability to protect itself against disease.
HIV inflicts this damage by infecting immune cells in our bodies called CD4 positive (CD4+) T cells—essential for fighting infections. HIV converts the CD4+ T cells into “factories” that produce more of the HIV virus to infect other healthy cells, eventually destroying the CD4+ T cells.
As CD4+ T cells are lost and the immune system weakens, a person becomes more prone to illnesses and common infections. AIDS is diagnosed when a person has one or more of these infections and a CD4+ cell count of less than 200. To know symptoms of HIV keep reading.

How Do Drugs Affect HIV?

The most common way of contracting HIV is through unsafe sex including “transactional” sex—trading sex for drugs or money. A person under the influence of intravenous drug use and needle-sharing drugs is more likely to engage in risky behaviors such as having unsafe sex with an infected partner.
More than 16,000 people died from AIDS in 2008.

Can Anyone Get HIV/AIDS?

Yes, anyone is vulnerable to contracting HIV. Although injecting and other drug users  and unsafe sex could be exposed to the infection. In 2010, nearly 47,000 people were diagnosed with HIV. Among those newly diagnosed.