HiV+notes+-+RJ

HiV:

-Magic Johnson has it -A virus so no cure -Can get from needles -Affects your immune system -Can get from transferring blood, breast milk, semen and vaginal fluid -Condoms prevent transmission. Not 100% effective but close -Can't cure it but can treat it -In the US more males that females have it -In the US more males have it due to homo sex (60%) than other other cause like needles or heterosexual sex etc. -More than a million people in the US have HIV -Sometimes people have it and don't know it because they are asymptomatic -It's an STD

Questions:

-How did it start in first person? -What's the life expectancy of someone with HIV? -What does HIV stand for? -Is anyone working on a cure? What are they working on? -Has anyone ever been cured? -How do treatments work? -How old are most people that get HIV? -Are the number of cases in the US decreasing or increasing? -Are the treatments to prevent AIDS or after starts? -Do you take medicine for the side effects for the side effects? -Is it illegal to knowingly transmit HIV?

HIV AIDS

1. Symptoms 2. Cause -If you have less than 200 Helper T-Cells/mL of blood -1. Help killer T-Cells -2.Help B cells make antibodies 3. Pathophysiology 4. Diagnosis 5. Transmission and Prevention 6. Treatment 7. Epidemiology: Study of Spread - Sub Saharan Africa is most affected - Southern Africa has more than 15% of HIV/AIDS victims -'07 8. Prognosis: Forecast 9. History -First spread in the homosexual community
 * 33.2 Million people living with HIV
 * 2.5 Million newly affected