Can you die just from being HIV+?

Question

How do people die from being hiv+ if they don't have aids?

Thanks Cemgurken --- and for the rest of you, if you don't know the correct answer you really shouldn't answer. And F-off dr. phil --- if you're so smart then maybe you should have written an answer.

Answer 1

you seem to already know the difference between AIDS and being HIV positive. For people who don't know:

being HIV+ means you have HIV (the human immunodeficiency virus)
having AIDS is a medical condition. the letters stand for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS happens when the white blood cells in your body (the main defenders against foreign bodies attacking your immune system, such as bacteria and viruses) cannot defend your body, hence the name immune deficiency. so contacting even the common cold will become a big issue for your body to defend against.

being HIV positive doesn't necessarily mean that you have AIDS or you will have it in the future, though most HIV+ people USED TO develop AIDS at one time. In the absence of antiretroviral therapy, the median time of progression from HIV infection to AIDS is nine to ten years, and the median survival time after developing AIDS is only 9.2 months, although disease might take as much as 20 years to progress to its critical levels (PubMed).

which brings us to the answer to your question:

no, you cannot die from just being HIV positive without having AIDS, at least medically speaking. for someone to develop complications from HIV that will ultimately lead them to death, that person will be classified as having AIDS prior to a such occurence.

technically speaking you cannot die from simply being HIV+. however you cannot die from AIDS without being HIV+.

for more info visit wikipedia's aids and hiv pages www.wikipedia.org/aids www.wikipedia.org/hiv

Answer 2

Usually you die from common colds like the flu, pneumonia, etc. because your body's immune system is so weak from AIDS it can't fight off simple colds that a normal person could. AIDS develops over the years from being HIV+. AIDS can take a while to develop, like the person above me said. My uncle had AIDS, but died from pneumonia because his immune system was too weak; he was only 33. So yes you will eventually die from being HIV+ because it leads to AIDS, which finally leads to a common cold that kills you.

Answer 3

Nobody dies from HIV or AIDS itself, they die because of diseases that attack their very weak immune systems.

Answer 4

It depends on the t-cell levels and if it progresses into full-blown AIDS. Everyones immune system is different and the disease progresses differently in everyone.

Answer 5

yea you can die from having hiv and you dont just die you die slowly it eats you t cells and makes you weak

Answer 6

If you don't already know this then you need to read up about HIV to protect yourself and others.

Answer 7

yea