What is AIDS?
The immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a state characterized by damage to the human immune system that allows infections that would otherwise be controlled for the operation of the unrest. These infections, called opportunistic infections, would be relatively small for someone with a strong immune system, but can lead to death for those who have AIDS.
This condition is caused by virus virus, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The time between HIV infection and AIDS development can be prolonged by drug regime, but even without treatment is still usually delayed for several years. This means that those who unknowingly inflicted HIV have many years during which they could accidentally infect others. Tears, saliva and sweat may contain a virus, but at such low concentrations that transmission through these fluids is virtually impossible. People are most commonly infected with unprotected sexual intercourse or sharing of unlimized needles among intravenous drug users.
when it was first identifiedAIDS, it has been found to be clumping in a gay population in California and has been unfairly stigmatized as a "homosexual disease" for several years. This has led to some heterosexuals and children, and the condition was discriminated against, while some children were forced from their schools.
It is assumed that the disease originated in Sub -Saharan Africa. In Africa, unlike the US, heterosexual sex is the main way of transmission and AIDS has had an extremely destructive impact on a number of African countries and cut the order through the most productive demographic-sweet, sexually active adults. The unwillingness honestly talks about what causes the slow -ness of the international reaction to this disease, but some nations are now the success of the slowing of AIDS through the widespread defense of the use of condoms.
In the US, its spread has been slowed down by education in safe sex and the development of the treatment of infected HIV, which delays the onset of full AIDS.While in the first days a person was diagnosed with HIV for only a few years for life, although the disease is still fatal - a person does not "turn" - people generally have a longer life expectancy and longer before the HIV procedure. The concept of life with AIDS is one that the world is just getting used to, although drug therapies are expensive and unavailable in poorer countries.