Can someone help me out with HIV???

Question

My sister was just diagnosed.

I know that this disease eventually leads to death.
How long will it take for her to die? I want to cherish every moment.

Also- is there a special school for kids that have HIV, or do they have to be homeschooled so they don't give it to other kids at school?

Please help me!!! I am very depressed!

Answer 1

People can live "long" and happy lives after being diagnosed woth HIV. My partner has been HIV+ for 14 years now, and he still looks and feels as healthy as he did they day he was diagnosed. He tells me its very under control with the drugs he is taking.
I cant see any reason why a child should go to a differant school just because they are HIV+. we would get into the area of disscrimnation with that. Im sure i have heard of "special" schools for HIV+ teens. But sending a child there would be up to the parent.

When my Partner told me (3 weeks inot out relantionship) i nearly died then and there. I was heartbroken, i felt anger, sadness, fear all kinds of emotions. I started crying and he settled me right down. he told me the only way i would be able to deal with it was knowledge. So i went and found out as much as i could about HIV. And i urge you, and you sister, to do the same.

One thing i will say is dont give up. it can be very easy to fall into a state of depression when one hears news like this but thats not going to help your sister. Just think how she is feeling.

Anyway, i wish you all the best, and you sister. You'll be fine.

Godbless. ;-)

Answer 2

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS - if someone has HIV they will develop AIDS but not immediately - HIV slowly kills someone so chances are she has 10 - 15 years before it even develops after that she may live for a long time - no one is to say how long - she should take her medz that will hold it off - don't worry she has a long long time to live - Don't stress so much what's done is done - and no people with AIDS are not secluded from society in special schools because - they can only give it to another person through bodily fluids like blood (i dont think you can get it form drinking from the same cup) or from having sex with the infected person - I suggest you both get completely clued up as to exactly what HIV is and what it does - knowledge and awareness is everything.

Answer 3

Yesh, your sister will eventually die. But if she gets on the right medications she will have a longer HIV infected life. There is no special school that she needs to go to. HIV is transmitted through blood, so if there's blood in some drink that she drank and someone else drinks it, someone will get it that way. Or if she has sex with someone and it can be transmitted that way. So basically her blood getting into someone's body is the way it's transmitted. But, if a misquito bites her and bites another person, no worries, HIV is only transmitted from Human to Human, not even animals.

Don't be depressed. Your sister will still live to be atleast 30, unless she doesn't get on medication and get's terribly sick.

Have a great summer!

Answer 4

Nobody has but learned the foundation of HIV. The main speculation (the final time I checked) used to be that SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus) someway mutated and crossed from primates (as a rule chimpanzees) into folks (fitting HIV, or the human immunodeficiency virus). This is only a speculation, however it kind of feels to be essentially the most supported one. The 2 forms of HIV seem to have originated in 2 locations in Africa from 2 extraordinary species of primates. If that is actual, it might have unfold early on by way of men and women butchering monkeys within the jungles of Africa, and most probably by way of sexual touch with their spouses. The handiest rationale men and women within the USA consider it is a "homosexual disorder" is that it's believed the virus first got here to the USA through Europe by way of a homosexual guy, which announced it into the homosexual group, and that is what made the inside track. Had it unfold by way of the breeder group, I'm definite it might be stagmatized relatively in a different way. However, within the USA, as within the relaxation of the arena, it's now an same-possibility pathogen, and is not confined to, or commonly extra regularly occurring in any targeted institution of men and women.

Answer 5

HIV has a clinical latency period of 2 weeks or 20 years, and HIV isn't the killer AIDS is, with the treatments we have now she can live until she is 80, the disease kills the white blood cells that fight off disease. She will need your love and support, but other than that. you will have many good years together.

Answer 6

You are the only girl for your parent, which sister you are talking about, I know with HIV for over twenty years and is still going, just take your medications, dont worry, we all have pain in our lives
and please dont spread it around, love you fellow men

Answer 7

she can live a long time. she just needs to take the proper meds. she goes to school with evrery other kid. dont freak out about it. just take it step by step.