Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, damages the immune system, weakening its ability to fight the viruses and bacteria responsible for various sicknesses and diseases. As the virus progresses, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome develops. Known...
Infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) leads to the condition known AIDS or acquired immunodeficiency disease, according to the Mayo Clinic. However because HIV cannot survive for very long outside the human body, the number of ways...
Anyone can become infected with HIV/AIDS. There are many ways to contract HIV/AIDS. However, if you are aware of what the risk factors for HIV/AIDS are, you can decrease the odds of contracting this disease. One can be exposed to this disease...
The term AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is given to the most advanced stages of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). The immune cells are impaired or killed, devastating the body's ability to ward off infections and certain cancers....
"If I get HIV, it's no big deal. They've got drugs for that." When young people go online to arrange live hook-ups with strangers, they might not worry about contracting HIV/AIDS. So says the Syracuse Post-Standard's April 2010 article,...
Formerly considered a "man's disease," acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is also a threat to the health of women. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the primary ways American women are contracting the...
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. The virus attacks and destroys a person’s T cells, which help fight off infection and disease. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that in 2006, 1.1 million people were living...
AIDS, an acronym for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is a chronic, life-threatening disease that affects more than 39 million people worldwide, according to the Mayo Clinic. It begins as HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus, which...
HIV, also known as the human immunodeficiency virus, is a crippling and devastating medical condition in which your immune system no longer fights against infection. Specifically, this virus destroys the white blood cells (fighter cells) in your...
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a communicable virus that leads to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Advances in medication have extended the lifespan for decades in some patients. The virus is transmitted by bodily fluids, which...
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. This virus is contracted through contact with HIV-infected blood, semen or vaginal fluids. A person with HIV can take a variety of...
A fishy vaginal smell can be embarrassing and negatively affect social and sexual relationships. Most cases are due to an infection called bacterial vaginosis, or BV, which occurs when anaerobic bacteria outnumber the healthy bacteria inside your...
Human immunodeficiency virus -- HIV -- or AIDS is a communicable, chronic condition that suppresses your immune system, often leading to death or severe debilitation due to the inability to fight off other infections and diseases. If you have or...
AIDS--acquired immune deficiency syndrome--is the final and most serious stage of HIV disease, an infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. HIV can be transmitted from an infected person to another through sexual contact, use of...
AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV. AIDS is the latter stage of the disease when your immune system has been broken down significantly and you get sick with a variety of diseases and...
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS, is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV. AIDS is an infectious and deadly disease that can be spread through sexual contact, infected blood and mother to child transmission. There is no cure...
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is a virus that kills or damages the cells of the immune system. The virus spreads through sexual transmission or contact with infected blood, either through shared needles, mother to child during pregnancy,...
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, or HIV, is the virus responsible for causing AIDS. Individuals infected with HIV may not have any signs and symptoms initially, or they may mimic symptoms accompanying other illnesses, such as the flu. According...
Years ago it was thought that the spermicide Nonoxynol-9 that was added to condoms and sexual lubricants would help prevent both unwanted pregnancies and the transmission of HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. After a decade of research, it...
Methadone is a prescribed synthetic opioid substitute for the opiate heroin used to control addiction. During pregnancy, both heroin and methadone can be passed from the mother to the fetus via the placenta. According to the Substance Abuse and...
Crack cocaine is a combination of cocaine hydrochloride and either ammonia or baking soda. Once processed, crack cocaine appears as chunks. The University of Maryland's Center for Substance Abuse Research points out that crack cocaine causes an...
HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is a serious sexually transmitted disease that does not have a cure. While men are diagnosed with HIV more often, women, especially women in their 30s, are still at a high risk of contracting HIV, according to...
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), caused by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), is a global epidemic that affects over 39.5 million people according to the Mayo Clinic. HIV damages the body's immune system by infecting and eliminating CD4...
Contracting HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus is something that you can prevent. According to the CDC, HIV is spread through sexual contact with someone who is infected, sharing needles for injecting drugs with someone who is infected, or during...
Both men and women can contract gonorrhea through bodily fluids, and it can be passed onto a newborns at birth if the mother is infected with this sexually transmitted disease (STD). Besides the sexual organs, this infection can appear in the...
Avert, an international AIDS charity, states that HIV and AIDS prevention proves vital for those who have already become infected with the virus, as well as those who present a risk for infection. While treatment with antiretroviral medications...
In 2008, 47 percent of Americans over the age of 12 had tried an illicit drug, according to Drug War Facts. Prescription drug abuse in adolescents, older adults and women is on the rise, says the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Drug...
Bacterial vaginosis is an infection in the vagina caused by an unbalanced amount of bacteria. This is the most common vaginal infection among women of childbearing age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Treatment for the...
There are negative effects possible with all methods of birth control. Failure to prevent pregnancy is one possible negative effect of all birth control methods, including natural methods; however, artificial birth control methods have other...
