HIV ( Human Immunodeficiency Virus )
What’s HIV? How can it be transmitted? Can it go away? If so, how.? HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus,HIV is just like other viruses, like the ones who cause the “flu” and common cold. Over time,humans immune system can kill this bacterias and viruses out of humans bodies, thats not the case with hiv.For some reason the immune system does seem to get rid of the hiv virus.Its known that HIV can, and probably will hide in cells for longs periods of time, and will of course later on targeting a specific type of cells in our immune system, the T cells or CD4 Cells. Our bodies need T cells to be able to fight infections and get rid of any bad stuff in our body, but the HIV virus infest them and …show more content…
theres a treatment called “Anti Retroviral Therapy” (ART). ART is the use of hiv medicines to slowdown the infection it involves taking a combination of hiv medicines in a daily bases. These hiv medicines can control the virus production so that you can live a more prolonged,and healthier life, and greatly reducing the chance of you transmitting the virus to …show more content…
Around 50,000 new hiv infections occur in the US alone. HIV is mainly spread by having sexual activities such as, anal sex which is the one that puts people at a higher risk, vaginal sex, which is the second highest risk, having multiple sex partners, and sharing needles and syringes. There is some cases that the partner doesn 't know that the other person have hiv because they don 't have rashes or nothing. there are some other cases that people can tell if the other person has the virus. whenever you have multiple sex partners it can increased even more the risk of getting hiv. there is many ways that a person can get this without knowing that the virus can get transmitted. a hiv patient thats pregnant has also a high risk of passing this disease to her newborn child, this is called “mother to child”. Mother to child transmission is now rare in the us and other countries. just because there is a rare doesn 't mean that it doesn 't happen anymore it means is not really
What’s HIV? How can it be transmitted? Can it go away? If so, how.? HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus,HIV is just like other viruses, like the ones who cause the “flu” and common cold. Over time,humans immune system can kill this bacterias and viruses out of humans bodies, thats not the case with hiv.For some reason the immune system does seem to get rid of the hiv virus.Its known that HIV can, and probably will hide in cells for longs periods of time, and will of course later on targeting a specific type of cells in our immune system, the T cells or CD4 Cells. Our bodies need T cells to be able to fight infections and get rid of any bad stuff in our body, but the HIV virus infest them and …show more content…
theres a treatment called “Anti Retroviral Therapy” (ART). ART is the use of hiv medicines to slowdown the infection it involves taking a combination of hiv medicines in a daily bases. These hiv medicines can control the virus production so that you can live a more prolonged,and healthier life, and greatly reducing the chance of you transmitting the virus to …show more content…
Around 50,000 new hiv infections occur in the US alone. HIV is mainly spread by having sexual activities such as, anal sex which is the one that puts people at a higher risk, vaginal sex, which is the second highest risk, having multiple sex partners, and sharing needles and syringes. There is some cases that the partner doesn 't know that the other person have hiv because they don 't have rashes or nothing. there are some other cases that people can tell if the other person has the virus. whenever you have multiple sex partners it can increased even more the risk of getting hiv. there is many ways that a person can get this without knowing that the virus can get transmitted. a hiv patient thats pregnant has also a high risk of passing this disease to her newborn child, this is called “mother to child”. Mother to child transmission is now rare in the us and other countries. just because there is a rare doesn 't mean that it doesn 't happen anymore it means is not really