AIDS

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e possibility of infection if there are any cuts or sores in the mouth.
Pregnant women who are HIV positive can pass it onto their baby either at birth or through breast feeding. There are prescription anti-HIV drugs that can reduce the risk of passing HIV through birth. Caesarean sections also reduce the risk.
The only way known to reduce to risk of transferring AIDS through sexual intercourse is to use a condom and use it right, or be abstinent.
There are some false conceptions about contracting the HIV virus. An individual can’t become infected with HIV through sharing utensils or a drink with somebody who is HIV positive. You also can’t contract the disease by eating food made by an individual with HIV or by hugging, kissing, or touching. Using the same toilet as an HIV positive person also can’t give you the disease.
IN order to measure the progression of HIV in patients, doctors use surrogate markers which is laboratory data that correlates with disease progression. Surrogate markers for the various stages of the HIV disease include the continuous loss of CD4+ T-lymphocytes. CD4+ T-lymphocytes are the major white blood cells lost through the infection of HIV. The lower a patients CD4+ T-lymphocyte count the more advanced the degree of immunosuppresion. The amount of HIV that is in the blood of a patient is also a surrogate marker.
Acute Retroviral Syndrome is a progression of HIV that occurs in untreated infected individuals. In about one to three weeks after infection many individuals will experience flu-like symptoms including fever, headache, tender lymph nodes, and malaise. During this phase of the disease HIV reproduces very quickly, circulates through the blood, and establish infections in the body mainly in the lymph nodes. Patients CD4+ cell counts fall for a brief period of time but become almost normal as the immune system responds to the infection.
After the Acute Retroviral Syndrome patients enter...