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AIDS stands for Acquire immune deficiency syndrome is an infectious disease caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). AIDS patients may suffer certain kinds of cancer as well as serious infections in lungs, skin or digestive or even affecting to the central nervous system. It is caused by a virus known as HIV. When it enters into blood stream, it may kill certain white blood cells which normally act to fight off germs.
The most commonly occurring causes of aids through infected blood, semen or vaginal secretions must enter your body. A person can become infected with HIV in several ways, including: In some cases this virus may be transmitted through blood transfer via person to person. HIV can be transmitted through needles and syringes contaminate with infected blood. It can be caused by infected mothers can infect their babies during pregnancy or delivery. If a person may become infected if he or she vaginal or oral sex with an infected partners whose blood entering to your body.
The following signs and symptoms of HIV is turning into AIDS including if person have an affecting with fever that won't go away long time, losing weight, feeling tired all time (not from specific stress or even lack of sleep), sweating while person sleep, pneumonia and swollen glands like neck, groin, or underarms) , white patches in the mouth( is an infection called oral thrush or candidosis) etc.
AIDS symptoms includes persisting infections, such as tuberculosis, cytomegalovirus, herpes, toxoplasmosis and other that are called opportunistic infections. HIV infection is often associated with other sexual transmit infections. Combination of HIV with other sexual transmit infections is more life threatening than each of them separately. Almost every infection is possible with its worst manifestation. Different patients demonstrate different AIDS symptoms in different target organs such as lungs, nervous system, intestine etc. HIV virus can also destroy central nervous system. The most dangerous and frequently occurring symptom is progressive dementia as an outcome of cortical atrophy of brain. HIV virus propagation in brain cells leads to loss of short term memory, in coordination, muscle weakness, speech and psychics disorders.
Now a day, several drugs and treatments of aids has been introduced by the experts to prevent HIV infection and its associated cancers. This drugs are called highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and have substantially reduced HIV related complications and deaths. Some of them are reverse transcriptase inhibitors can reduce the ability of virus to make copies of itself such. It can be categorized with nucleoside or non nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. These includes medication such as stavudine (d4T/Zerit), lamivudine (3TC/Epivir) Zidovudine (AZT/Retrovir) fornucleoside.Nevirapine, efavirenz are examples of non nucleoside reverse transcriptase. Integrase inhibitors stop HIV genes from becoming incorporated into human cell's DNA. This is a newer class of drugs recently approved to help treat those who developed resistance to other medications. Pregnant women who are infected to HIV should seek care immediately because HAART therapy reduces the risk of transmitting the virus to the fetus. There are certain drugs, however, that are harmful to babies. These all treatments for HIV has been taken under the supervision of a physician who is an expert in the care of HIV infected patients.
