2. INTRODUCTION
• A AIDS is a disease in which there is a severe loss of body’s cellular immunity ,
greatly lowering the resistance to infection.
• Aids stands for Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome.
• Acquired - Means you can get infected with it .
• Immune Deficiency - Means a weakness in the body’s system that fights with
disease.
• Syndrome - Means a group of health problems that make up a disease.
• Aids is caused by a virus called the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
• Being HIV positive, on having HIV disease , is not the same as having AIDS.
• Many peoples are HIV positive but didn’t get sick for many years, as HIV
disease continues.
• It slowly weans down the Immune System, Viruses Parasites, Fungi & Bacteria
that usually don’t cause any problem can make you very sick if your immune
system is damage.
3. HOW DO SOMEONE GET AIDS
• You don’t actually gets AIDS. You may get infected with HIV & later
you might develop AIDS.
• You can get infected with HIV from anyone who is infected even if
they don’t look sick & even if they haven’t tested HIV-Positive yet.
• The blood viginal fluid , semen and breast milk of people infected
with HIV has enough of the virus in it to infect other people.
• MOST PEOPLE GET THE HIV VIRUS BY:-
• Having sex with an infected person who is not on treatment & has a
detachable viral load .
• Sharing a needle (shooting drugs) with someone who is infected.
• Being born their mother is infected or drinking the rest milk of an
infected women .
• Getting a transfusion of infected blood use to be a way people got
AIDS but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and this
risk extremely low.
4. DO YOU KNOW
• More than 70 million people have been infected with the HIV virus and about
35 million have diet HIV.
• Globally 36.7 million people while living HIV at the end of 2016.
• 1.8 million people become newly infected HIV in 2016.
• While the national AIDS control organization stated that 2.39 million people
live HIV/ AIDS in India.
• SYMPTOMS
• Within a few week in HIV infection flu like symptoms such as fever , sore
throat occurs.
• The disease is usually Asympothetic until it progress to AIDS .
• AIDS symptoms including weight loss , fever or night sweating etc.
• People May Experience :-
• Pain areas : In abdomen
• Pain circumstances: can occur shoving.
• Cough can be dry.
• Whole body : fever , loss of Appite, Night Sweating , Nausea, Vomiting ,
diarrhoea.
• Mouth: ulcer .
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7. AWARENESS
KEY POINTS ABOUT AIDS:--
• Be a loyal to your partners.
• Avoid sex with multiple partners.
• Try to use condoms.
• Avoids sex with prostitutes.
• Awareness in everything :
• Create posters to hang around school or school lobby to
educate your peers about the global impact of HIV and AIDS
• Host & Events : Raise Money for HIV and AIDS relief efforts
through a benefit concert .
• Red Ribbons: Red Ribbons are the international symbol and
safety pins at a local craft store and hand them out.
• Free Testing : June 27 is national HIV testing day.
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9. TREATMENT
• No cure exists for AIDS but strict adherence to Antiretroviral
Regimens(ARVs) can dramatically slow the disease progress as
well as prevent secondary infection and complications.
SOME DRUGS ARE :--
• ABECAVIR (Ziagen)
• ZIVOVUDINE (Epivir)
• RITONAVIR (Norvir)