Topics Share Term paper on Aids Hiv AIDS/HIVAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, better known as AIDS, is caused bythe incurable HIV virus. AIDS is a deadly disease that deteriorates the immunesystem. There are two groups of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), HIV-1 thatoccurs throughout the world and HIV-2 that mainly occurs in Africa. The HIVvirus enters the white blood cells and takes over the reproductive system ofthat cell and uses the system to reproduce itself. The white blood cell diesand the new HIV cells infect other white blood cells and repeat the process.The Person with the disease will eventually die because the white blood celldies off tottally.
If you have become infected with the AIDS disease you may not have anysymptoms of the disease for the next ten years. People with the HIV virususually look and feel healthy and may not even know that they are infected.
Even though they don’t look or feel sick, they can still infect others.When the symptoms do start to happen they can be like the ones of manycommon sicknesses such as swollen glands, coughing, fever, and diarrhea. It isusually characterized by severe weight loss and fatigue.The AIDS diseasemakes the less serious conditions harder for your body to control or get rid ofbecause of the loss of many of the white blood cells in your body. The mostcommon causes of death for the people with AIDS are pneumonia and Kaposi’ssarcoma. Kaposi’s sarcoma which shows up as purple lesions on the skin andtumors known as B-cell lymphomas have affected 70% of the infected people.
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