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HIV: magic johnson has it. a virus you can't cure. can get from needles. affects your immune syste, can get from transferring blood, breast milk, semen and vaginal fluids. affects appetite. wasting disease. get very skinny. can't cure it but can treat it in the US more males th 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 then 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 does it start in first person? by chimpanzee infected blood how long can someone live with HIV? it depends each case is different what does HIV stand for? human immunodeficiency virus is anyone working on a cure? what are they working on? no there working on a treatment has anyone been cured? no how do treatments work? the main drug stops the virus from copying itself. HIV have RNA and for it to work it has to change the RNA to DNA how old are most people that get HIV? the average age is 25 are the number of cases in the US increasing or decreasing? increasing what are the side effects of taking the treatments? nausea, tiredness, rashes, headaches, diarrhea 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 Wat is the difference of HIV and AIDS? Aids is the virus the other is the condition how do you know you have it? if the white blood cells test is down

HIV AIDS GRAPH 1 time (weeks or years vs. helper T cells

Pathophysiology- diseases epidemiology- study of spread. Subsahara Africa.. about 15 billion each men and women have HIV. 33.2 million with HIV..2.5 million in 2007. 2.1 million deaths prognosis- forecast symptoms- unusual cancer caused by viruses cause- may have flu like symptoms. it makes copies in the blood. they decrease over time.if you have less then 200 helper T cells in mL of blood. help killer T cells kill. help B cells make antibodies diagnosis transmission and prevention treatment- drugs that slow virus replication history- HIV a very similar virus is in those of chimpanzees which live in Africa and started in sub sahara africa. some how it was spread to human. transmitted through blood. first reported june 5, 1981