High+Five+(HIV)+notes-Faith

__**HIV/AIDS**__

 * Magic Johnson has HIV
 * there is no cure
 * Can get from needles
 * affects your immune system
 * can get from transferring blood, breast milk, and semen and vaginal fluids
 * Condoms prevent transmission
 * Not 100% effective but close
 * affects appetite (wasting disease)
 * cannot cure but you can treat it
 * In the US more males than females have it
 * In the US more males have it due to homosexuality sex (60%) than other disease 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 the first person?
 * it started in a chimp and went to a human through blood
 * how long can someone live with the disease?
 * depends on the treatment
 * what does HIV stand for?
 * human immunodeficiency Virus
 * Is anyone working on a cure?
 * no because we do not think it is possible
 * Has anyone ever been cured?
 * no, but there are some people that have cells that cannot get infected
 * How does treatment work?
 * the drugs stop the disease from replicating
 * How old are most HIV patients?
 * average age is 25
 * Are the number of cases in the US increasing or decreasing?
 * it is increasing now but at times it does decrease
 * What are the side effects of taking the treatments?
 * nausea
 * tiredness
 * hard to sleep
 * headaches
 * skin rashes
 * Do you take medication for the side effects?
 * yes
 * Is it illegal to knowingly transmit HIV?
 * yes it is manslaughter
 * Are the treatments to prevent AIDS or after AIDS starts?
 * Are the treatments to prevent AIDS or after AIDS starts?

__**General Information**__

__Symptons__
 * unusual cancers caused by the virus
 * Pneumonia-infection of the lung
 * infections in esophgus and digestion tract
 * difficult to absorb food

__Causes__
 * When someone gets HIV after about 6 weeks the cells start to increase
 * the helper T cells start to decrease
 * if you have less than 200 helper T cells per mL of blood then you are said to have HIV
 * Help killer T cells
 * Help B cells make antibodies

__Pathorphysiology__

__Diagnosis__

__Prevention__

__Treatment__
 * have drugs that decrease the virus and decreases amount of T cells dying
 * stops virus from replicating

__Study of Spread__
 * Africa has the highest prevalence (widespread) of HIV (more than 15%)
 * people living with HIV-33.2 million
 * new HIV 2.5 million
 * Death with HIV 2.1 millions
 * of the 33 million, 22 million are in sub-saharn Africa (1.7 million are children)
 * mostly women have the disease (50%) and 40% are ages 15-24 that have the disease
 * people in low income countries have the disease
 * 6800 people are infected EVERYDAY!

__History__
 * Evidence says that is most likely started somewhere in Africa
 * Caused by a virus
 * A very simuliar virus started in chimps which live in a part of Africa
 * the virus in chimps involved into HIV for humans
 * started through blood in the chimp and was transferred onto a human
 * the first case was reported in 1981 in the US in 5 homosexual men in LA
 * was first found in 1959