A DEATH SENTENCE
SEX/DRUGS/GAYS
PASS
NOPE IT TAKS ABOUt 5-10 years
CONDOM/NO CASUAL SEX
2006-08-10 02:06:45
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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AIDS is Acquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome is an active effect of HIV Human Immuno-Difficiency Virus, a close relative of SIV, Simian (ape) Immuno-Difficiency Virus. AIDS attacks the immune system, preventing it from protecting the body against disease. The body becomes vulnerable to a wide range of illnesses that it would normally be protected against. As the illnesses, diseases, bacterial infections, parasitic infections and viral infections devastate the unprotected body, the body weakens and expires.
Morbidity (chance of contracting the illness) varies. Also varied by individual is the time it takes before the virus becomes fully contagious in a new target, time before onset of symptoms, and progression of illness toward death. Mortality (death) without treatment is virtually guaranteed, though time and manner of death varies.
Avoid "at-risk" behavior: unprotected sex, sharing needles, or any other blood or blood-related fluid contact with infected or "at risk" individuals.
People possessing a certain gene apparently can be carriers of HIV without becoming symptomatic, without progression to full AIDS, and without adverse health effects, but only one in a couple hundred thousand people possess this gene.
Evidence suggests that about 200,000 years ago, chimpazee populations were decimated, virtually wiped out by SIV, which is why all chimps living today have the SIV immunity gene, and why they show less genetic diversity than humans.
Some people believe that transmission of the virus may be linked to exosomes (bubble-like extrusions from cells that may carry information between cells) and histomes (markers to the protein at the center of DNA)
2006-08-10 09:18:51
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answer #2
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answered by crispy 5
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1. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is a condition in which the immune system is weakened and therefore less able to fight certain infections and diseases
2. It is caused by infection with HIV (or Human Immunodeficiency Virus). As can be gathered by the name, HIV is a virus which attacks the immune system (your body’s security system) making it prone to infection.
3. Human immunodeficiency virus disease is characterized by a gradual decrease in immune function. This is mainly associated with the disabling and killing of CD4+T cells, also called T-helper cells. These T-helper cells play a major role in the immune system’s response to disease. A person not infected by HIV normally has between 800 and 1200 T-helper cells per cubic millimeter of blood. Throughout the pathogenesis or progression of HIV, this level steeply decreases. Typically when a person’s T-helper cell count drops below 200 per cubic millimeter, they become susceptible to the infections, diseases, and cancers which are associated with AIDS
4. I don’t really understand this part of your question. Everyone who gets HIV get AIDS. Everyone who gets AIDS eventually expires because. Medication can be taken to protect against illness (obviously) but there is nothing that cures the disease.
5. The most common ways to get AIDS are:
* having sex with a person who has HIV or AIDS
* sharing drug needles with someone who has HIV or AIDS.
You can also get HIV from a blood transfusion, if the HIV is in the blood. But that is rare. Strict rules about who can donate blood and tests on donated blood make transfusions very safe.
You cannot get HIV by donating blood. You cannot get HIV just by being in the same room with an infected person, or just by shaking hands or hugging an infected person.
In the last few years, AIDS has increased most among women, African Americans and Hispanics.
Sex, Condoms and AIDS
If you or your partner have had sex with someone else, you both could get AIDS.
In the United States, women are more likely to get HIV from men than the other way around. Latex condoms are the best way to keep from getting HIV during sex. If you or your partner is allergic to latex, there are condoms made of polyurethane that can protect against HIV, too.
But natural membrane condoms, also called lambskin condoms, do not prevent HIV because the virus can pass through them.
2006-08-10 09:06:50
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answer #3
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answered by chikka 5
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1. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The late stage of the condition leaves individuals prone to opportunistic infections and tumors.
2. Most researchers believe that HIV originated in sub-Saharan Africa during the twentieth century; it is now a pandemic, with an estimated 38.6 million people now living with the disease worldwide.
3. It is the results of catching (HIV) through sharing blood or bodlily fluid
4. it can affect everyone but people have different tolerances for the virus.
5. you can prevent by not sharing needles, abstaining from sex, or using a condom.
2006-08-10 09:08:36
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answer #4
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answered by wing_gundam 3
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You're asking this question in the Higher Education section. Does that mean you're a college student who is supposed to be writing a paper on AIDS? If so, you're cheating by being on here and asking someone else to basically provide your paperwork for you. And if you're in college, you need to get off the internet and study more, because your spelling is atrocious. If you want information on AIDS, look up the information yourself. There are many internet search engines that will provide the information you're looking for.
2006-08-10 09:07:17
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answer #5
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answered by j.f. 4
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A disease caused by the HIV virus spread by sexual contact or exchange of body fluids such as blood. The development of full blown aids with many infections is a delayed process and can be prevented by modern drug treatment of HIV.
2006-08-10 09:44:09
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answered by Anonymous
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aids is an auto immune defiency syndrome. it's a virus that is passed on through unprotected sex or use of needles used in drug injections. i don't know what you mean by questions 3 and 3. to prevent it, do not have unprotected sex, and do not use needles used by another person to inject drugs.
2006-08-10 09:10:34
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answer #7
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answered by Debi K 4
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aids is acquired immune deficiency syndrome It happens when you have sex or share needles or any bodily fluid or from infected mother to child threw birth.as protection don't share needles and protect your self during sex and be cautious when handleing other ppl fluids
2006-08-10 09:09:56
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answered by Anonymous
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