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Infected With Hiv Living With Hiv
2,016 wordsHIV and AIDS are one of the leading causes of death among 24 to 45 year olds and yet so many Americans seem to know nothing about it. So many people in the world believe HIV and AIDS are the same thing, but they are sadly mistaken. HIV is a virus. The letters stand for Human Immunodefiency Virus. HIV is a virus that attacks your immune system. What it attacks are important immune-system cells called T-cells. HIV is a retrovirus, which means it is slow moving. By attacking and killing the immune ...
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Bodys Immune System Sexual Intercourse
820 wordsAIDS is the plague of the 20 th century, but how much do we really know about this deadly disease? HIV is a virus that gets into the body and flows through the bloodstream. AIDS is the disease that is caused by HIV. Once you are diagnosed as HIV positive, you do not automatically have AIDS. There is a possibility of being HIV positive, and not having AIDS. Most people do not know it is the infections that break down the bodys immune system rather than the AIDS that kills parents. HIV can be prev...
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Protease Inhibitors Bodily Fluids
1,198 wordsCytomegalovirus Retinitus Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection is very common within the general population, but it often shows little or no symptoms in healthy people (Gateway). It infects between 50 % to 85 % of adults in the United States by the age of 40 (CDC). However, in the immuno depressed population, there is often an active infection that shows many possible symptoms. Within the HIV infected community, the CMV virus? most common symptoms are retinitis and gastrointestinal problems (Gateway)...
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