Question

What is AIDS ?

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Answer 1

• AIDS is a late stage of HIV infection in which the immune system of the body has been severely compromised by the virus.
• Most patients with HIV in the United States do not acquire AIDS because they take their HIV medication on a daily basis as advised.
• When a person with HIV has advanced to AIDS, it means they have:
• The quantity of CD4 lymphocytes in their blood drops below 200 cells per cubic millimetre (200 cells/mm3). (CD4 levels range from 500 to 1,600 cells/mm3 in those who have a healthy immune system.) OR
• Regardless of their CD4 level, patients get at least one opportunistic infection.
• People with AIDS have a 3-year survival rate if they don't take HIV medication.
• Without treatment, a person's life expectancy drops to around a year if they have a serious opportunistic infection.
• At this stage of HIV infection, HIV treatment can still aid patients and may even save their lives.

Answer 2

AIDS is the progressed form of the infection caused by HIV, which has targeted the immune system.

Explanation:

Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is the advanced stage of the viral infection, Human Immunodeficiency Virus.

HIV when initially attacks shows symptoms similar to flu, such as fever, throat irritation, nausea, giddiness etc. The infection then becomes asymptomatic for years until it has hijacked the immune system of the infected individual. The virus continues to reproduce within the host body replicating its genetic material by reverse transcription in the host cell.

The virus destroys the immune system over the years so that it becomes incapable of resisting invasions of antigens and is susceptible to contracting minor infections and takes very long recovery periods.

AIDS comes to be diagnosed at a very progressed stage of infection when the individual begins to show symptoms of sudden drastic loose of weight, recurring infections, pneumonia, ulcers in mouth and tongue, persistent diarrhea, secondary infections, loss of appetite, fatigue, etc.

Not only is the body susceptible to diseases but also looses its ability of functioning normally.

HIV is contracted by transmission of bodily fluids, like blood, saliva, semen or vaginal discharge from an infected person.

There is no medication for HIV as of now except antiretroviral therapy, it only helps in curbing the viral multiplication and does not act on killing the virus.