Article Review on HIV/AIDS

Article Review on HIV/AIDS

Introduction

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), an infectious disease, attacking the CD4 + T cells, it severely compromises the immune system and leads to the onset of various diseases opportunistic occur mainly in people whose immune system is compromised. The clinical picture of people who develop this disease is usually very serious, so as to require special therapies and treatments in hospital specialist centers of infectious diseases. HIV is transmitted mainly through unprotected sex (without a condom) with people infected with HIV through blood (e.g. through needles used by HIV-positive people for HIV), or from mother to child during pregnancy, at the time of birth or through breastfeeding. The diagnosis of the presence of HIV infection is made through the determination of specific antibodies directed against the virus (CDC, 2011).

Since the late 80s, were introduced therapies capable, if not eliminate the virus from the body to slow the progression of the disease. Only in the mid-nineties with the introduction of combination antiretroviral therapy called HAART, there was a significant impact on the natural history of infection. Currently, this disease has acquired characteristics of chronic disease, treatments effective in treating the disease not allow us to get to the healing, in addition, while there is a reduction in AIDS cases this is not the case for the diagnosis of infection (CDC, 2011).

The article that has been chosen to review focuses on vital signs that relates to the HIV infection, risk behaviors and testing among the youth of today. This article has been published by (Suzzanne et.al) in November 2012. It was supported by the department of United States for Disease Control and Prevention. In this article, the authors have discussed about the significance of prevention from HIV/AIDS based ...