AIDS is a chronic incurable disease that is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV is contracted through sexual contact, contaminated blood or blood products, contamination through intravenous needle sharing and via mother-to-child...
There are over 1 million HIV-positive people in the United States as of 2010, according to the CDC. It is typical for an HIV patient to be asymptomatic for years, though even during this time the HIV virus keeps killing the CD4 lymphocytes that...
AIDS, which stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is caused by HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus. The initial HIV infection may cause no symptoms, or may cause a short, severe flu-like illness. After the initial infection, the...
There are 56,300 new cases of HIV infection in the United States yearly according to 2010 information from the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. HIV, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus, attacks the immune system by destroying...
The San Francisco AIDS Foundation states that whereas most illnesses are straightforward, HIV behaves with great subtlety. The University of California, San Francisco explains that from the moment it infects a person, HIV begins to neutralize his...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, notes that at the end of 2006, an estimated 1,106,400 persons in the United States were living with HIV infection, with 21 percent undiagnosed. Without treatment, HIV progresses quickly to...
HIV is an acronym for human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report that the virus attacks the immune system, eventually leaving the...
HIV/AIDS progresses in clearly defined stages, according to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. Because the early stages are often asymptomatic, testing is critically important to maintaining health. The earlier testing is completed in an infected...
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a communicable infection that attacks the immune system. This life-threatening condition is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). People diagnosed with HIV or AIDS typically experience a...
The HIV virus slowly infects cells in the body's immune and central nervous system, ravaging the immune system over time to the point that the body is unable to fight back. The medical and scientific communities organize HIV infection into four...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2008 approximately 56,000 people in the United States were newly infected by HIV. It is a disease that affects millions of people globally and from all walks of life. Many advances in...
AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is the potentially terminal disease caused by HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus. MedlinePlus reports that AIDS is the sixth leading cause of death among people ages 25 to 44 in the U.S. People...
According to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), over one million people in the United States are living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Infection with this virus progresses through several stages,...
The early stages of AIDS are extremely mild and are often mistaken for other illnesses. Once someone recovers from the initial stage of infection, she may go without symptoms for many years. During this time, there is damage occurring to her body,...
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to the Mayo Clinic. AIDS compromises the body's ability to fight off viruses and bacteria that can cause disease. People suffering from AIDS...
Two sexually transmitted disease, AIDS and syphilis, can cause serious health problems. A bacterium called Treponema pallidum causes syphilis, while AIDS results from the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. AIDS does not have a cure. While...
Since the first reported case in 1981, AIDS has become a pandemic, report researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is caused by the spread of the human immunodeficiency...
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...
Getting diagnosed with HIV is not the same as having AIDS. According to "The Body," if HIV is left untreated, it can progress to AIDS. If you are worried about having been exposed to HIV, getting screened is important. Getting screened and...
HIV is a life-threatening, blood-borne illness caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. The last stage of this infection is named AIDS. Many patients never reach this stage, but for those who develop full-blown AIDS, it usually takes about a...
Nearly all HIV-infected children under the age of 13 in the United States contracted the virus during childbirth, according to the Children's Hospital in Boston. The symptoms of HIV and AIDS in children are highly dependent on the child's age....
AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is the final stages of the HIV illness, according to the National Library of Medicine. Contraction occurs during unprotected sex with an infected individual or through direct contact with infected...
Nearly 38,000 people were diagnosed with AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, in the United States in 2008, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. AIDS is the advanced form of the human immunodeficiency virus,...
Human immunodeficiency virus infects and kills white blood cells. The decrease in the number of these cells, called T cells, affects the immune system, leaving the body vulnerable to certain types of infections and cancers. According to the...
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, weakens the immune system, leaving the body unable to effectively fight such diseases as cancer and pneumonia. Approximately 40 million people worldwide had HIV in 2008, according to the Mayo Clinic, and they...
After a long fight against the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, the infection can bloom into the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. This end-stage development in the disease produces more severe symptoms and allows opportunistic...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, viruses are not structured in the same way living cells are; they have no nucleus and no metabolism and do not reproduce on their own. In order for a virus to reproduce, it must take...
The appearance of antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV in a person's blood is called HIV seroconversion, or acute HIV infection. HIV seroconversion symptoms typically arise within two to four weeks after a person is initially...
As of July 2010, more than 1 million people are estimated to be living with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The initial or primary symptoms of HIV...
