AIDS and HIV

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ry out surveillance of the number of individuals affected and to monitor the progress of the disease (Schoub 36).
The classification systems for AIDS consist of three major features: Firstly, laboratory tests for HIV infection; secondly, demonstration of what are called indicator diseases; thirdly, the cerebral manifestations of the AIDS as well as the other direct effects of the virus such as watching.

HIV has been found in blood, semen, saliva, Tears, nervous system tissue, breast milk, and female genetic tract secretion; however, only blood, semen female genetic tract secretions, and breast milk have been proven to transmit infection to others. Aids is a fatal. It is transmitted by both heterosexual and homosexual practices. Some sexual practices, such as anal intercourse, carry higher risk of transmission than other sexual practice, such as vaginal intercourse. Transmission occurs more readily from an infected man to a woman than from an infected woman to a man.

One of the most common modes of transmission is by contact with infected blood. HIV is spread among injection drug user by the sharing of needles with minute quantities of blood of someone infected with the virus. Also, women can transmit HIV to their babies during pregnancy or birth.

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