HIV-AIDS+Notes+CH

=HIV/AIDS=

HIV: Magic Johnson has it. A virus so no cure. Can get it from needles. Affects your immune system. Can get from transferring blood, breast milk, semen, and vaginal fluids. Condoms prevent transmission. Not 100% effective but close. Affects appetite. (Wasting Disease, get very skinny.) Can't cure it but can treat it. In the US more males than females have it. In the 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 ave 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? 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 increasing or decreasing? What are the side effects of taking the treatments? Do you take medicine for the side effects? Are the treatments to prevents 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?
 * Came from chimpanzees
 * Originally about 12 years
 * Now people are living a lot more than this number of years
 * Human Immunodeficiency Virus
 * No, because there is no cure
 * No there is none
 * They get the helper T cells to increase. The main drugs stop the virus from copying itself.
 * Cannot be determined
 * Increasing
 * Nausea
 * Diarrhea
 * Tiredness
 * Difficulty Sleeping
 * Headaches
 * Peripheral neuropathy
 * Skin Rashes
 * Lipodystrophy
 * Y E S, YES!!
 * Prevent AIDS
 * Yes
 * HIV is the virus and AIDS is the condition
 * Blood test
 * It hurts it

FROM KAT: __**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.