HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS

AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is a slowly progressive infectious disease characterized by disorders of the immune system and the sum of the different clinical symptoms. HIV belongs to a group of slow infections. HIV for a long time and retains its vitality in the blood plasma, devoid of cellular elements. It was probably connected with this extraordinary "productive" ways of transmission through a syringe (Varghese, pp. 38-43).

Viruses are killed by boiling in 1 min, resistant to sunlight and freezing. The virus can be transmitted by having unprotected sex, transfusion of infected blood and through infected blood, instruments, and objects, from mother to fetus. In the spread ...