AIDS

In recent years, AIDS is spreading the pace of the epidemic. In all regions of the world, there is a trend towards an increase in the number of these diseases. The World Health Organization proposed December 1 to be considered World AIDS Day. AIDS was first described by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981, and its causative agent: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) - was described in the early 1980s.

In recent years, AIDS is spreading the pace of the epidemic. In all regions of the world, there is a trend towards an increase in the number of these diseases

AIDS - a dangerous HIV-infection virus spreads in three ways: sexual, through the blood, intrauterine. How to diagnose AIDS? With the penetration of the virus into the body, antibodies are formed in it. This can be determined by a blood test. A positive blood reaction means that a person is infected, although it can remain healthy and healthy, but already a virus carrier and can infect others.

To prevent AIDS, you can not use someone else's toothbrushes, shaving blades, manicure tools, unsterilized syringes for injections. Avoid accidental intimate relationships, use preventive means, lead a healthy lifestyle. Drinking, addiction also lead to AIDS.

AIDS is the terminal stage of HIV infection, the period from infection with the human immunodeficiency virus to the development of AIDS lasts on average 9-11 years. Most of the symptoms are caused by bacterial, viral, fungal or parasitic infections that do not develop in individuals with a full-fledged immune system and affect almost all organ systems, as a manifestation of the crash of the immune system as a result of a drop in the number of CD4+ lymphocytes below a certain level.

Without treatment, the average survival period after HIV infection is 9 to 11 years and depends on the HIV subtype, and life expectancy after diagnosis of AIDS in the absence of therapy is 6 to 19 months, according to various studies. Depending on how timely the disease is diagnosed and treatment started, life expectancy after the initial diagnosis of HIV infection is up to 20 years.

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