Own virus called Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV for short) is the virus that weakens the immunity in the human body. People affected by this virus will become vulnerable to opportunistic infections or tumors susceptible. Although there has been handling can slow the rate of progression of the virus, but this disease can not really be cured.
HIV and similar viruses are generally transmitted through direct contact between the skin layers (mucous membrane) or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal, and breast milk. [2] [3] Transmission can occur through sexual intercourse (vaginal, anal, or oral), blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, as well as other forms of contact with body fluids.
Scientists generally believe that AIDS originated from Sub-Saharan Africa. [4] Now that AIDS has become a plague. AIDS has infected an estimated 38.6 million people worldwide. [5] In January 2006, UNAIDS in collaboration with the WHO estimate that AIDS has caused the death of more than 25 million people since it was first recognized on June 5, 1981. Thus, this disease is one of the deadliest plague in history. AIDS claimed to have caused the death of as many as 2.4 to 3.3 million lives in 2005 alone, and more than 570,000 people of whom are children. [5] The third of these deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa, thereby slowing the growth economy and destroy the power of human resources there. Antiretroviral treatment can actually reduce the death rate and severity of HIV infection, but access to treatment is not available in all countries. [6]
Social penalties for people with HIV / AIDS, are generally more severe when compared with patients with other deadly diseases. Sometimes the social punishment is also tertimpakan to health workers or volunteers, are involved in caring for people living with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA).Table of contents
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* 1 Symptoms and complications
o 1.1 The main pulmonary disease
o 1.2 The main digestive tract diseases
o 1.3 neurological disease and major psychiatric
o 1.4 Cancer and malignant tumors (malignant)
o 1.5 Other Opportunistic Infections
* 2 Causes
2.1 Transmission of sexual
2.2 Contamination of blood-borne pathogens
2.3 Transmission of perinatal period
* 3 Diagnosis
3.1 System WHO stages of infection
3.2 CDC classification system
3.3 HIV Testing
* 4 Prevention
o 4.1 Sexual intercourse
o 4.2 Contamination of infected body fluids
o 4.3 Transmission from mother to child
* 5 Handling
o 5.1 Antiviral therapy
o 5.2 Handling of experimental and advice
o 5.3 Alternative medicine
* 6 Epidemiology
* 7 History
* 8 Social and cultural
o 8.1 Stigma
o 8.2 The economic impact
o 8.3 Denial of AIDS
* 9 See also
* 10 References
* 11 Further reading
* 12 External links
[Edit] Symptoms and complicationsThe main symptoms of AIDS.
The various symptoms of AIDS are generally not going to happen in people who have a good immune system. Most conditions are caused by infection by bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites, which are usually controlled by elements of the immune system that HIV damages. Opportunistic infections are commonly found in people with AIDS. [7] HIV affects nearly every organ system. People with AIDS are also at greater risk of suffering from cancers such as Kaposi's sarcoma, cervical cancer, and immune system cancers known as lymphomas.
AIDS patients usually have symptoms of systemic infection, such as fevers, sweats (particularly at night), swollen glands, chills, weakness, and weight loss. [8] [9] certain opportunistic infections suffered by AIDS patients, also depends on the level frequency of occurrence of these infections in the geographic area where the patient lives.
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