According to the Mayo Clinic, AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), is a life-threatening condition caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). AIDS is a result of the damage done to your immune system over a period of time by HIV, which...
More than a quarter million Americans are infected with HIV and unaware of it, according to the Centers for Disease Control. One reason for that is people infected with HIV may remain relatively symptom-free for 10 years or more after infection....
According to a July 2010 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 21 percent of the 1 million Americans living with HIV do not know they are ill. Aside from flu-like symptoms shortly after exposure, untreated...
Human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, can be sexually transmitted or contracted through blood-to-blood contamination. The virus targets and destroys CD4 helper lymphocytes, or T-cells that protect the body from infection. There is no cure, but...
The term AIDS is an abbreviation for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the late stages of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV. After it infects the body, the HIV virus slowly destroys the immune system. The normal role of...
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...
