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Children living with HIV and AIDS
Human Immunodeficiency Virus, HIV, is not limited to infecting adults; children are vulnerable to becoming HIV positive, as well. Similar ways of HIV transmission in adults is also common in children. Here, are 5 facts about children living with HIV and AIDS. Fact 1: Mother to child transmission of HIV: Babies are susceptible to contracting the virus from their mothers. In poor communities mothers are not aware of their HIV status; babies are often born with HIV, but they do not receive immediate treatment. Millions of children die before they reach 1 year of age. Fact 2: Blood transfusion: Children becoming infected with HIV via blood transfusions are very common...
Read MoreYou do not die from HIV, so what does it do?
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus, more commonly know as HIV, is a virus which has caused one of the world’s most catastrophic pandemics. The HIV infection causes the immune system to deteriorate – providing the perfect environment in which opportunistic diseases prosper. Everything about this fatal virus is simplified below. Transmitting the HIV Infection The HIV infection is transmitted from an infected person to an uninfected person through the direct exposure of bodily fluids. These fluids include blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate, or breast milk. The most common reasons for the transmission of the HIV infection are: unsafe sex, sharing of infected...
Read MoreHIV symptoms, the early signs of HIV infection
It is important to understand that HIV is a virus and the early stages of HIV infection will include the symptoms common to most viral infections, much like flu. The early signs of HIV infection, while not experienced by everyone infected for the first time include, headaches, nausea, fatigue and runny stomach with the likelihood of swollen glands. The reason for the symptoms to present much like the flu is that in the early stages of infection there is a high concentration of the virus as it spreads through the body and your body is beginning to fight the virus. At this stage of infection, the likelihood of passing on the virus is very high and should there be no reason...
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