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What is AIDS?
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
 | Acquired means you can get infected with it. |
| Immune Deficiency means a weakness in the body's immune system. |
| Syndrome means a group of health problems that make up a disease. |
How do you get AIDS?
AIDS is not a disease you can just get from some one but but it is a symptom of HIV. You can get HIV from having unprotected sex with someone with the virus, sharing a needle with someone who is infected and being born by a mother with AIDS or drinking the breast milk of a mother with AIDS. Back in the old days when the blood used in transfusions was infected it would be used unnoticed and the new owner of the blood would get AIDS. If someone with the virus has a sore in their mouth and they get kissed, the kisser could get AIDS.
What are the Symptoms of being HIV positive?
Some people don't know they have HIV. Some people get headaches, fever, sore muscles and joints, stomach ache or a rash or skin infection for a while. Most of the people with these symptoms just think it is the Flu. Some people have no syptoms.
How are AIDS detected?
HIV disease only becomes AIDS when your immune system is seriosly damaged. If you have less than 200 CD4+ cells or CD4+ percentage is less than 14%, you have Aids.
The Cure
There is no cure for Aids. There are drugs to slow down the process of HIV and to slow the damage of the immune system.
