HIV+and+AIDS

Gabby Brown, Christopher Domville, Jeremy Altman

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
 * AIDS**

unsterilized surgical instruments and sharing needles exposure to HIV blood, breast milk, and semen unprotected sex passed from mother to child
 * How do you get AIDS?**

AIDS is a virus caused by HIV

Rapid weight lost Dry cough reoccuring fever and extreme fatigue swollen lymph glands reoccuring diarrhea white spots on tongue/mouth memory loss/depression
 * Symptoms**

blood or urine test that look for antibodies for HIV
 * How is it diagnosed?**

HIV affects and breaks down your immune system
 * Where does it affect?**

There is no known 100% cure for aids, but scientists have made extreme progressions in drugs to control it. Also, some claim that bone marrow or blood transplants can cure the disease but nothing is proven so far.
 * Cure**

Have protected sex or do not do it at all Avoid behaviors that would allow HIV infected blood, semen, breast milk into your body There is no vaccine for prevention Some people have it passed down from a parent, so they can not help having the disease
 * Prevention**

Once HIV is in your body it attacks your white blood cells. The virus injects its RNA into the DNA of your cells and reproducing uncontrollably. After a while, the immune system finds it too difficult to keep fighting off the disease and stops trying. Then you are more likely to get sick because you do not have an immune system intact.
 * About Aids**

About 3,000,000 people were living with aids in 2004. 
 * Questions**

True/False 1. You can not get AIDS from unprotected sex.

2. Which is a way you can //not// get AIDS?

A. sharing needles that have not been sterilized B. kissing (when there are no open cuts in the mouth) C. Hereditary D. being imposed to HIV infected blood

3. About _______ people were living with aids in 2004.