AIDS is the acronym used for Acquired

AIDS

AIDS is the acronym used for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It isa disease transmitted through the blood. It is transmitted from person toperson through sexual intercourse, blood transfusions, IV drug users, andfrom mothers to babies during birth. AIDS is a disease which breaks downthe human immune system causing the body to become very open to toinfection. The disease is brought about by the HIV-1 virus. HIV-1( HumanImmune deficiency Virus) can remain dormant for years and then begins toattack the bodies T- cells and white cells which help fight off infection.Full-blown AIDS occurs when a person is in the last stages of his or herbattle for life. It is a fatal disease not because of the disease itself butbecause of the fact that other infections attack the body and it has no wayto recover from it. Full-blown AIDS is the stage of a person's life whentheir immune system has been completely destroyed. A person does notusually have any symptoms of the disease. That is that there are no realhints that a person is infected. There is no certain look to a person who isHIV-1 positive. They could be the person who lives next door or a completestranger that is seen passing by one the street. The patient

Whatever treatments are used, theymust be done while the patients immune systems are still in tact. This does not meanthat advances have not been made. Most of the research has been conductedby the CDC(Centers for Disease Control) and funded by the federalgovernment. Other Countries around the world have vast cases of infection fromthese viruses as well. As of 1990, women made upabout ten percent of infected Americans but the numbers keep on growing. One is that it is such a new disease. People began to think up new and bizarre ways that the disease could becontracted. Oneunprotected sexual intercourse can be the cause of the transmission of theHIV-1 virus. These ideas seemed outrageous a fewyears ago but today are not so far-fetched. AIDS is an epidemic that can not be cured but can be contained. The numbers of infectedheterosexuals in the United States is growing. There are also programs in effect toexchange used needles with clean ones so that IV drug users have less achance of contracting the disease. When treatment is stopped, the virus and all its symptoms reappear. The virus must somehow been contracted by heterosexualsfrom blood transfusions or needle sharing.