How does someone develop AID/HIV?

Answer 1

They contract HIV from unproteced sex, but the AIDS developes from it over time

Answer 2

What is AIDS? What causes AIDS?

AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

An HIV-positive person receives an AIDS diagnosis after developing one of the CDC-defined AIDS indicator illnesses. An HIV-positive person can also receive an AIDS diagnosis on the basis of certain blood tests (CD4 counts) and may not have experienced any serious illnesses. A positive HIV test does not mean that a person has AIDS. A diagnosis of AIDS is made by a physician according to the CDC AIDS Case Definition.

Over time, infection with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) can weaken the immune system to the point that the system has difficulty fighting off certain infections. These types of infections are known as opportunistic infections. Many of the infections that cause problems or that can be life-threatening for people with AIDS are usually controlled by a healthy immune system. The immune system of a person with AIDS has weakened to the point that medical intervention may be necessary to prevent or treat serious illness.


How long does it take for HIV to cause AIDS?

Currently, the average time between HIV infection and the appearance of signs that could lead to an AIDS diagnosis is 8-11 years. This time varies greatly from person to person and can depend on many factors including a person's health status and behaviors. Today there are medical treatments that can slow down the rate at which HIV weakens the immune system. There are other treatments that can prevent or cure some of the illnesses associated with AIDS. As with other diseases, early detection offers more options for treatment and preventative health care
What is the Difference Between HIV and AIDS?


HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.


H - Human: because this virus can only infect human beings.
I - Immuno-deficiency: because the effect of the virus is to create a deficiency, a failure to work properly, within the body's immune system.
V - Virus: because this organism is a virus, which means one of its characteristics is that it is incapable of reproducing by itself. It reproduces by taking over the machinery of the human cell.

A - Acquired: because it's a condition one must acquire or get infected with; not something transmitted through the genes
I - Immune: because it affects the body's immune system, the part of the body which usually works to fight off germs such as bacteria and viruses
D - Deficiency: because it makes the immune system deficient (makes it not work properly)
S - Syndrome: because someone with AIDS may experience a wide range of different diseases and opportunistic infections

Answer 3

A person can develop HIV from another infected person. Through bodily fluids. Such as semen, vaginal fluid and blood. Unprotected sex, oral sex with open sore in your mouth, sharing needles, things of that sort. HIV alters your DNA becoming intergrated. Over time, HIV weakens your immune system making you more suseptible to viruses. AIDS can also develop afterwards as well.

Answer 4

AIDS and HIV




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AIDS is a life-threatening disruption of the immune system by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). This virus progressively weakens the body's ability to fight off disease, opening it to severe infections with both common and exotic organisms, as well as various forms of cancer. In the United States, most cases of AIDS have been traced to the virus called HIV-1...[more]
HIV/AIDS is spread through bodily fluids, most frequently blood, male seminal fluid, or female vaginal secretions. For transmission to occur, the infected fluid must enter the uninfected person's body through some kind of cut or opening in the skin or mucous membranes in the body.

The virus can be transmitted at any stage of infection. You need not be symptomatic, or even know you are infected, in order to pass the AIDS virus to someone else. People are most infectious within the first six months to one year following their own infection, and then six to ten years later as their immune system becomes more suppressed.


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Answer 5

From unprotected sex with someone who is HIV positive. From blood or body fluid contact with someone who is HIV positive. Or sharing needles with someone who is HIV positive.

Answer 6

through sexual intercourse or blood contact with an infected person. VERY rarely through infected blood transfusions. But you don't have to really worry about the transfusions because doctors check that VERY closely anymore.

Answer 7

if you have sex with the other person that has it than you will get it.only if you have sex with a person that has AID/HIV only.but wait until your adult to have sex until you married.

Answer 8

It's not just gay sex, you morons.
You can get it from any kind of unprotected sex.

Answer 9

Unprotected sex.

Answer 10

Having gay sex.