23 Facts About HIV AIDS

Between the time that HIV AIDS was identified and 2021, the disease has caused an estimated 40 million deaths worldwide.

HIV AIDS made the jump from other primates to humans in west-central Africa in the early-to-mid 20th century.

People with HIV AIDS have an increased risk of developing various viral-induced cancers, including Kaposi's sarcoma, Burkitt's lymphoma, primary central nervous system lymphoma, and cervical cancer.

Additionally, people with HIV AIDS frequently have systemic symptoms such as prolonged fevers, sweats, swollen lymph nodes, chills, weakness, and unintended weight loss.

HIV AIDS can be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy, during delivery, or through breast milk, resulting in the baby contracting HIV AIDS.

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HIV AIDS is a retrovirus that primarily infects components of the human immune system such as CD4 T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells.

HIV AIDS is a member of the genus Lentivirus, part of the family Retroviridae.

The hybrid spreading mechanisms of HIV AIDS contribute to the virus's ongoing replication against antiretroviral therapies.

The reason for the preferential loss of mucosal CD4 T cells is that the majority of mucosal CD4 T cells express the CCR5 protein which HIV AIDS uses as a co-receptor to gain access to the cells, whereas only a small fraction of CD4 T cells in the bloodstream do so.

HIV AIDS seeks out and destroys CCR5 expressing CD4 T cells during acute infection.

HIV AIDS is one of the most important risk factors for tuberculosis.

However, after determining that HIV AIDS was not isolated to the gay community, it was realized that the term GRID was misleading, and the term HIV AIDS was introduced at a meeting in July 1982.

In 1983, two separate research groups led by Robert Gallo and Luc Montagnier declared that a novel retrovirus may have been infecting people with HIV AIDS, and published their findings in the same issue of the journal Science.

Gallo claimed a virus which his group had isolated from a person with HIV AIDS was strikingly similar in shape to other human T-lymphotropic viruses that his group had been the first to isolate.

HIV AIDS-1 appears to have originated in southern Cameroon through the evolution of SIV, a simian immunodeficiency virus that infects wild chimpanzees .

The closest relative of HIV AIDS-2 is SIV, a virus of the sooty mangabey, an Old World monkey living in coastal West Africa .

Stigma-related violence or the fear of violence prevents many people from seeking HIV AIDS testing, returning for their results, or securing treatment, possibly turning what could be a manageable chronic illness into a death sentence and perpetuating the spread of HIV AIDS.

HIV AIDS stigma has been further divided into the following three categories:.

Topic of religion and HIV AIDS has become highly controversial, primarily because some religious authorities have publicly declared their opposition to the use of condoms.

Therese Frare's photograph of gay activist David Kirby, as he lay dying from HIV AIDS while surrounded by family, was taken in April 1990.

Criminal transmission of HIV AIDS is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus .

In 2014, some among the British public wrongly thought one could get HIV AIDS from kissing, sharing a glass, spitting, a public toilet seat, and coughing or sneezing .

Several discredited conspiracy theories have held that HIV AIDS was created by scientists, either inadvertently or deliberately.