HIV+PK

How did it start in first person? HISTORY http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9989410 How long can someone live with HIV? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9516219 http://aids.about.com/b/2006/11/11/how-long-can-you-live-after-an-hiv-diagnosis.htm What does HIV stand for? Human Immunodeficiency Virus Is anyone working on a cure? What are they working on? NO...Vaccine Has anyone ever been cured? NO...but some never get infected How do treatments work? Prevent virus from... becoming a condition What are the side effects of taking the treatments? weight loss, nausea, Do you take medicine for the side effects? yes Are the treatments to prevent AIDS or after AIDS starts? - to prevent AIDS Is it illegal to knowingly transmit HIV? - YES - manslaughter What is the difference between HIV and AIDS? - ones a virus, ones a condition How do you know if you have it? - blood test Why does HIV affect the immune system? - stunts the production of WBCs
 * Questions:**
 * How old are most people that get HIV?**- 25
 * Are the number of cases in the US increasing or decreasing?** - increasing

General:

Information:

Symptoms: - unusual cancers caused viruses - pnemonia, infections in esophogus, digestive tract, Cause: - if you have less than 200 helper T cells per mL of blood - helper T cells - help killer t cells and help B cells make antibodies - makes up immune system

Pathophysiology (diseases): - Most prevalent in the Sub Saharan and South Africa - pretty equal among ment and women 33 million ppl,- 22 million are in africa - 2 million children - 2 million ppl died this year

Diagnosis

Transmission

Treatment - drugs that slow virus replication

Epidemiology - Most prevalent in the Sub Saharan and South Africa - pretty equal among ment and women 33 million ppl,- 22 million are in africa - 2 million children - 2 million ppl died this year - mostly young people - low income countries

Prognosis

History - HIV is very similar to a chimpanzee virus (who live in Sub Africa) - first located with homosexuals in LA in the US