Body fluid exchange•Blood•Breast milk•Vaginal Fluid•Semen

6 month 10+years Becomes AIDS

Treatments include- AIDS Cocktail and AZT

NO CURE

Flu LikeRashes

Weight Loss

HIVHuman Immunodeficiency Virus

HIV

• Variable incubation period months-years• HIV lives in the blood, semen, vaginal fluid

and breast milk of an infected person.• 70 % of all new infections are by

unprotected sex. Sharing needles is the second most common way it is transmitted.

• Mother to child during birth and breast feeding are also ways of transmission.

HIV

• Flu-like symptom. Known as a ‘wasting’ disease- rashes, weight loss, fever are common signs (for those that engage in risky behavior).

• There are specific treatments but NO CURE. The end result will be death of the infected person.

HIV to AIDS

• Remember HIV will attack and wipe out your immune system (T-Cells in particular).

• When an HIV positive persons T-cells count is below 200 & has an opportunistic infection present, they have AIDS.

• An opportunistic infection is an infection caused by pathogens that usually do not cause disease in a healthy immune system. A compromised immune system, however, presents an "opportunity" for the pathogen to infect.