Every 10 minutes someone is infected by this disease. For this reason it is extremely important to know more about what HIV/AIDS, how it spreads and how they can prevent.

WHAT IS AIDS?

Syndrome = set of signs and symptoms.

Immune Deficiency = significant depletion of the immune system.

Acquired = due to a virus contracted by the patient during his lifetime. The disease is not hereditary.

When HIV enters the bloodstream, it attaches to the cell, and transcribes viral RNA into DNA, which enters the cell nucleus to form part of the cell’s genetic code.

When this happens, the virus is slowly destroying T4 cells, but the immune system is strong and can go even regenerating cells destroyed, at this stage the symptoms are not presented in person.

AIDS, is the set of clinical manifestations that occur as a consequence of depression of the immune system due to infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A person infected with HIV is losing, gradually, the function of certain immune system cells called CD4 T cells, making it susceptible to various infections such as pneumonia or fungal infections. In some cases, these opportunistic infections (infections by microorganisms that usually do not cause disease in healthy people but they do in those who have lost, in part, immune system function) can even cause death or development in the patient of various cancers.

At the beginning of the 1980s were detected several deaths due to opportunistic infections were also observed in transplant patients receiving immunosuppressive therapy to prevent rejection of the transplanted organ. Apparently, a large number of these deaths occurred in male homosexuals.

In 1983, a French specialist in cancer, Luc Montagnier of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, succeeded in isolating a new human retrovirus in a lymph node of a man suffering from acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Around the same time, American scientists also managed to isolate a retrovirus in AIDS patients and in people who dealt with AIDS patients. This virus, known as HIV today, turned out to be the causative agent of AIDS.

It is important to consider that getting an HIV infection does not necessarily mean that the person will develop acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, although those patients who were diagnosed with HIV infection are considered, erroneously, as AIDS patients. In fact, there is evidence that some people have been infected with HIV for over ten years without, during this time, having developed any clinical manifestations that define an AIDS diagnosis. In 1997 it was estimated that over 30 million people worldwide were living with HIV or had AIDS (29.5 million adults and 1.1 million children).

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that since 1981, when the first AIDS cases were detected until the end of 1998, over 12.9 million adults and children have developed clinical AIDS-defining. In this same period there have been 11.7 million deaths from this cause. Spain is the European country with the highest incidence of the disease and ranks second (after USA) in number of cases in the Western world.

MAIN SYMPTOMS

• Depletion prolonged unexplained.
• swollen glands (lymph nodes).
• Fever lasting more than 10 days.
• Colds.
• Excessive sweating, especially at night.
• injuries including sore mouth and gums swollen and painful.
• Sore throat.
• Cough.
• Shortness of breath.
• Change in habits, including constipation.
• Frequent diarrhea.
• Symptoms of a specific infection (such as candida, pneumocystis, etc.)..
• Tumors (Kaposi sarcoma)
• Skin rashes or other injuries.
• Unintentional weight loss.
• General discomfort or uneasiness.
• Headache

Besides these symptoms may develop some more. It is important to mention that initially, ie when the infection is not present any noticeable symptoms

HIV is spread by direct contact through contaminated blood, semen and other sexual secretions. The virus in sexual flows infected men and women can pass into the bloodstream of a healthy person through small cuts or abrasions that may occur in the course of homo or heterosexual relationships.

One of the main mechanisms of transmission and spread of the disease is the sharing of needles or syringes contaminated with infected blood. This mode of transmission affects mostly intravenous drug addicts.

Currently, HIV infection due to blood transfusions is very unlikely, because the tests have been developed for the detection of virus in the blood.

The human immunodeficiency virus may also spread from infected mother to fetus through the placenta and the baby through breast milk. Although only 25-35% of children born to mothers with AIDS have HIV infection, this mode of transmission is responsible for 90% in all cases of pediatric AIDS.

In Western countries, the highest number of cases due to sexual intercourse has occurred through homosexual transmission, unlike what happens in Spain, where the largest number of infections due to heterosexual transmission.

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Venereal disease, also known as Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) are infectious diseases that affect male and female sexual organs. Most of them can be cured without his condition involving damage or injury to health.

The main problem are all those STDs that may pose risks to life or chronic sequelae if not treated in time. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), for example, has become a chronic illness (if appropriate treatment is not resulting in death), but has not yet reached a cure.

Genital herpes also carries some risk, it can lead to cervical cancer.

The population sector most affected is the teenager, from early age when they start having sex (or misguided misconception of danger in general) and partner changes of old age (in addition to the new habits: alcohol, nights out, drugs, etc.)..

Many

There are many sexually transmitted diseases (more than 20 known) produced by these viruses or bacteria. Some of them are (most common):

• Chlamydia
• Gonorrhea
• Syphilis
• AIDS
• Scabies
• Crabs
• Genital Candidiasis
• Genital herpes
• Genital Warts
• Hepatitis B
• Hepatitis C
• Proctitis

Some symptoms

Like STDs, which can trigger symptoms vary widely. Some of them are (genital area):

• Itching
• Irritation
• Secretion
• Burning with urination
• Warts, red blotches or blisters
• Pain in the lower abdomen
• Some STDs are asymptomatic, making it difficult to find them unless a check is made specific (genital herpes is only detectable in an outbreak. If there are no symptoms, herpes is difficult to diagnose).

Other symptoms a week and even a month after having had intercourse.

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Herpes

* Caused by a virus, can be treated but not cured
* Symptoms appear between 3 to 10 days after having sex with this disease
* The initial symptoms appear as blisters which then opens into a small hole and watery.
* In 5 to 10 days the symptoms disappear
* The virus settled in the body and can reappear as things, and sometimes often
* Women often do not Realize that he was suffering from blisters occur because the herpes inside the vagina

Fungal infections

* Caused by the fungus
* Causing the red irritation under the skin of a man who is not circumcised
* In women going out of thick white fluid that causes itching
* Can be cured with anti-fungal cream

Syphilis

* Caused by bacteria. The lesions appeared between 3 weeks to 3 months after having sex with this disease
* The wound looks like a hole in the skin with a higher edge. In general, do not feel sick
* The wound will disappear after a few weeks, but the virus will persist in the body and illness cans appear in the form of blisters on the entire body abrasions will disappear too, and the virus will attack other parts of the body
* Syphilis can be cured at each stage with penicillin
* In women lesions may be hidden in the vagina

VAGINISTIS

* Infection of the vagina that usually causes vaginal discharge that smells and cause inconvenience
* Caused by various types of bacteria (bacteria gonorrhea, chlamydia) or fungi
* It can also be caused by a variety of harmless bacteria that are settled in the vagina
* Can be investigated by examining the vaginal fluid with a microscope
* In most cases can be cured with appropriate drugs according to the cause.

Genital ulcer

* Caused by a virus (Human Papilloma Virus or HPV)
* It comes in the form of one or more sores or lumps between a month until a year after having sex with the disease
* In general, can not be seen in women because it is located in the vagina, or on men for being too small. Can be tested with a layer of vinegar
* It can have serious repercussions on women because it can cause cancer of the cervix
* This genital ulcer can be cured, she must perform a pap smear every time change intimate partner

FLEAS Gender

* Very small (less than or equal to 1 / 8 inch), brownish gray berwana, settled on pubic hair.
* Can be cured with a liquid medicine rubbed on genital hair

FLEAS UNDER THE SKIN

* Similar to genital lice, but smaller in size and settled under the skin
* It causes small wounds and itching all over body
* Treated with liquid medicine into the body diusapkan
* Clothing, linen and towels should be washed after treatment, because the lice can live on fabrics terebut

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) / HIV DISEASE

* The disease due to sex the most serious, causing no operation of the immune system
* There are no real symptoms without blood research
* Can cause death after ten years after infection with HIV virus, but treatment has been found
* Spread through sexual intercourse and use the same syringe.

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AIDS is the most dreaded disease at that time. HIV, the virus that) the disease of immune injury of the body (immune system for people suffering from this disease, the ability to defend against the attack caused reduces the disease. Someone who is HIV positive, not necessarily AIDS . In many cases in which HIV-positive but not sick in a long time. However, there is HIV in the body of a person who continues to damage the immune system. Accordingly, viruses, fungi and bacteria are generally harmless, very dangerous because the damage to the body’s immune system.

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