What are your views about HIV/AIDS?
By slakedpaper
@slakedpaper (417)
Algeria
4 responses
@swarn47 (1706)
• India
26 Nov 06
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the final and most serious stage of the disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. Symptoms begin when an HIV-positive person presents a CD4-cell (also called T cell, a type of immune cell) count below 200. AIDS happens concurrently with numerous opportunistic infections and tumors that are normally associated with the HIV infection.
The most common neurological complications of AIDS involve opportunistic infections of the brain such as progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy (PML) and meningitis, other opportunistic infections such as herpes zoster (shingles), peripheral neuropathy, depression, and AIDS-related dementia.
Description
AIDS was first recognized in 1981 and has since become a major worldwide pandemic. Abundant evidence indicates that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), discovered in 1983, causes AIDS. By leading to the destruction and/or functional impairment of immune cells, notably CD4+ T cells, HIV progressively destroys the body's ability to fight infections and to resist certain cancer formation.
Source: http://www.answers.com/AIDS?initiator=IE7:SearchBox
It is a dreadful disease and till today it is incurable. Prevention and precaution are the only remedies.
@Phlamingho (7825)
• Denmark
26 Nov 06
I think it's a horrible disease, but at least you wont die from it today if you catch it in time.