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2007-04-22 01:25:23 · 2 answers · asked by milind yadhav 1 in Health Diseases & Conditions STDs

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People who become infected with HIV may have no symptoms for up to 10 years, but they can still transmit the infection to others. Meanwhile, their immune system gradually weakens until they are diagnosed with AIDS. Acute HIV infection progresses over time to asymptomatic HIV infection and then to early symptomatic HIV infection and later, to AIDS (advanced HIV infection).
Most individuals infected with HIV will progress to AIDS if not treated. However, there is a tiny subset of patients who develop AIDS very slowly, or never at all. These patients are called long-term non-progressors.

2007-04-22 02:18:00 · answer #1 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 2 0

Seroconversion can take 2 to 4 weeks. It usually takes a high viral load in the body before anitbodies are produced. HIV testing looks for HIV anitbodies in your blood.

Medical practitioners usually ask someone to wait a period of time before testing for this reason.

Converting HIV to AIDS is a diagnosis. When the body's CD count drops to 250 or less, there is usually an official diagnoses and this is where many of the opportunitic infections can be found.

Many things affect how quickly a person's CD count will decline -- largely including poverty and life style.

2007-04-22 15:16:31 · answer #2 · answered by guru 7 · 0 0

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