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December 1 is Worlds AIDS day, I recommend you to read the Fast facts and browse through the given links for a better world and peaceful state of mind.

AIDS and its History in India

AIDS Statistics in India

Preventing AIDS

AIDS Symptoms



* HIV is short for human immunodeficiency virus and AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

* HIV and AIDS are names for different stages of the same viral infection that impairs your immune system.

* This infection attacks the cells that coordinate your immune response to foreign invaders.

* This attack prevents your body from fighting off viruses, bacteria, fungi, parasites.

* Because of this failure of the immune system, there is an increased risk of developing certain forms of cancer, including cervical cancer.

* You become infected with the HIV virus through contact with the infected body fluids of another person.

* Body fluids that can transmit the HIV virus include blood, semen, vaginal fluids and breast milk.

* Once infected, the virus begins to quietly damage the immune system by invading helper T cells, or CD4 lymphocytes.

* CD4 lymphocytes are the white blood cells that coordinate the immune system.

* Eventually all people with HIV will go on to develop AIDS.

* It can take a decade or more before HIV develops into full blown AIDS.

* Many of the available treatments, if initiated early enough, can help delay the progression of HIV into AIDS.

* The rate of HIV infection among women in the United States has increased in recent years, particularly among women of color.

* Most cases of HIV infection in women are the result of sexual contact with infected men, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

* Pregnant or breastfeeding women infected with HIV are at risk of passing the disease on to their children.

* Though there is no cure for HIV and AIDS, treatments have become much more effective in recent years.

* Today, people with AIDS can lengthen their lifespan and enhance their quality of life through a variety of medications.

* Most people in the United States and other developed nations have access to HIV and AIDS drugs.

* In developing parts of the world, access to medications is limited and AIDS mortality rates remain high.

* Safe sex methods such as rigorous condom use during sex can minimize the risk of contracting the HIV virus.

* Pregnant women can minimize transmitting the virus to their babies by taking certain HIV medications.


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