HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS

Introduction

AIDS - came by immunodeficiency syndrome - was first described in the United States in 1981 and has since become a foremost worldwide epidemic. HIV progressively decimates the body's proficiency to fight infections and certain cancers. People diagnosed with AIDS may get life-threatening diseases called opportunistic infections that are caused by microbes such as viruses or bacteria that usually do not make healthy people sick.

AIDS is caused by HIV

HIV virus slowly attacks the immune system cells. As HIV progressively damages the cells, the body becomes more vulnerable to infections, which he will have difficulty in combat. He is at a very ...