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__**HIV:**__ Magic Johnson has it. A virus no cure. Can get from needles. Affects your immune system. Can get it from transferring bloos, breast milk, semen and vaginal fluid. Condoms prevent transmission. Not 100% effective but close. Affects appetite. Wasting disease. Get very skinny. Can't cure it, but can treat it. In US more males, than females have it. In US more males have it due to homosexual sex (60%) than 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 is an STD!

__**Questions:**__ How did it start in first person? How long can someone live with HIV? What does HIV stand for?--> Human Immunodeficiency Virus Is anyone working on a cure? What are they working on? Has anyone been cured? How do treatments work? How old are most people that get HIV? Are the number of cases in the Us increasing or decreasing? What are the side effects of taking the treatments? Do you take medication for the side effects? Are the treatments to present AIDS or after AIDS starts? Is it illegal to knowingly transmit HIV? What is the difference between HIV and AIDS? How do you know if you have it? Why does HIV affect the immune system?

__**General Information:**__
 * Symptoms
 * Unusual cancers caused by other viruses
 * Pneumonia
 * Infections in esophagus and digestive tract
 * hard for them to absorb food, so they become very thin: called Wasting
 * Cause
 * 6 or 7 weeks after infection, you get flu like symptoms, there is a large jump in HIV copies in your blood
 * Less than 200 Helper T cells in one mL of blood means you have AIDS
 * HIV kills Helper T cells
 * Helper T cells help Killer T cells to kill diseases
 * Helper T cells help B cells that make antibodies
 * Much easier to get sick
 * Pathophysiology
 * Diagnosis
 * Transmission and prevention
 * Treatment
 * There are drugs that slow virus replication (copying)
 * Epidemiology
 * Africa has the most prevalance of HIV infected people.
 * More than 15% of adults have it in the Sub-Saharan Africa area
 * In U.S. only about 0.5-1.0% have it
 * In the world, its about half and half for men and women
 * about 2 million kids have it
 * In 2007 about 2.5 million people were infected
 * More than 96% of cases are in low and middle income countries
 * About 1200 are in children under 15 years of age
 * About 5800 are in adults aged 15 years and older
 * almost 50% are women
 * about 40% are among young people (15-24)
 * Prognosis
 * History
 * A similar virus is found in chimpanzees
 * Chimpanzees come from Africa (Sub-Saharan Africa)
 * Started possibly from a chimp bite or killing a chimp for some reason
 * Started from homosexual men in U.S.