For most HIV patients, the progression of the disease to the advanced stage of AIDS is relatively slow and can take years. The Centers for Disease Control will not classify a person with AIDS until his CD4 count has dropped to less than 200 and he...
AIDS is an infectious disease caused by the HIV virus that destroys the immune system. Though effective treatments exist, they don't cure the disease, they just slow its progression. Complications of AIDS can be caused by the direct effect of the...
AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is the last phase of HIV, according to the Mayo Clinic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines AIDS as having a positive HIV-antibody test and either a CD4 lymphocyte count of below 200...
The human immune deficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) attacks specific components of the immune system of the body, making the body prone to certain opportunistic infections, cancers and...
Without HIV treatment, full-blown AIDS usually takes about a decade to develop. During this last phase of the disease, the virus severely damages the immune system to a point where the body can no longer fight a number of viral, fungal, bacterial...
Dementia is basically a loss of accurate mental functioning. Dementia is a broad term to describe various types of brain functioning degeneration that occurs within the lifetime of some individuals. Cognitive functioning is often severely...
Dementia can spring from a number of different conditions. The most common is Alzheimer's disease, which affects about half of those afflicted with dementia. Other conditions include AIDS dementia complex, Huntington's disease and...
AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is the potentially fatal disease caused by HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus. HIV causes severe damage to the immune system. In addition to harming the immune system, HIV and AIDS damage the other...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that at the end of 2006, more than 1.1 million people in the United States had HIV. As HIV progresses into AIDS, patients can develop neuropsychological conditions, such as delirium;...
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a chronic disease caused from Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which causes damage to the immune cells that protect the body from bacteria and viruses presented in daily life. The Center for Disease...
AIDS is the terminal stage of disease caused by HIV. Those with AIDS have severely damaged immune systems, making it more difficult for them to fight off disease. As a result, patients are more vulnerable to developing life-threatening...
Getting diagnosed with HIV can be scary and elicit many different emotions and psychological effects. Take advantage of the support systems you have in place, and understand the community resources available.
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) damages the immune system by destroying specialized white blood cells that protect the body from infection. HIV causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). According to the Centers for Disease Control and...
