hiv/aids question?

Question

If someone has full blown aids, and they have sex with someone and "pass" it to them is it automatically full blown aids as well or does it always start off as HIV?

Also, say if someone was diagnosed at 20 with hiv and they started eating healthy, exercising and taking all their medications, what is the average number of years hiv patients survive?

Answer 1

A person can't contract AIDS - period.

People don't contract AIDS - they contract HIV, which in most cases usually develops into AIDS.

And, there is NO WAY to know how long a person can live with HIV before it progresses into AIDS - everyone is different. My uncle personally contracted HIV at the age of 25 and died from complications of AIDS when he was 33. He only lived 8 years after he contracted HIV. Magic Johnson has had HIV for 16 years and it hasn't become AIDS though. There is just no way to long how long a person can live with HIV/AIDS.

Take care!
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/basic/

Answer 2

What you get is HIV, never AIDS - AIDS develops out of HIV.

You can live for 20yrs+ without developing AIDS or you can develop AIDS after a few years but get on medication and stay health for a long long time as well.

Taking medicines is quite important. However if the CD4 count is lower than 800 and the viral load of the hiv virus (the presence of the virus) is low or undetectable, there is no need for medication at that point.

It is very important to have a ballanced diet, excercise, try to lead a healthy life, eliminating vices and reducing stress as much as possible. Taking vitamin and other dietary supplements.

Doing lab work to monitor the blood about every three months is a must.

When the lab work shows that there is need for treatment to be started, medications should be thoroughly revised and decided which ones to take. It is true that a lot of them have quite strong side effects. Good thing is that meds have improved a lot since the beginning of the 90's and are much more effective. HIV poz people can be healthy for a very very long time, before developing AIDS.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Many people continue to live healthy, happy lives more than 10 years after testing positive for HIV. The bottom line is that testing positive for HIV is not a death sentence. Such as many of my net-friend from positivesingles.com
They treating their body well, following their doctor's instructions and maintaining good mental health. Those are simple steps you can take to manage your health. Different things work for different people and you can also join in the web to ask someone experienced or some experts and find out what works for you and do it.

Answer 4

No. The center for Disease Control and Prevention describes AIDS as a long list of infections, select types of cancer, unexplained severe weight loss, dementia, as well as any CD4 cell count of less than 200 cells/uL.

There is no life expectancy for someone with HIV/AIDS. Lots of people live longer than 10 years from the day they acquired it, some don't live longer than 1 year. It all depends on your overall health, how you take care of your body, your financial availability to current medications and your desire to live.

Answer 5

8 years before HIV becomes full blown AIDS, regardless of infection origin.

Longest lived AIDS patient has lived 20 years, and counting.
Infected t 17.

Answer 6

I'm pretty sure that they would get HIV first. HIV stays in your system for a while before it matures into AIDS.

Answer 7

I know of a case of someone that was dignosed with HIV 25 years ago. Check this website: patientslikeme.com
As for the first part of your question, sorry, I don't know.

Answer 8

It would initially take about two weeks to infect the first round of cells. It could be possible to survive twenty five years without any prescription drugs or even without any diagnosis of anything wrong.....in my hypothesis.