For more than 25 years, HIV/AIDS have hounded the society like a silent prey in the night. Although the spread of the disease has been going down in most progressive countries, there are still countries that have great problems with coping and preventing the disease. In this post we’ll be talking about the basics of the disease on how they work and slowly destroy your body. HIV/AIDS is always fatal and it’s necessary to understand how it works as much as possible to prevent one from getting the disease.
HIV and AIDS will always go with each other. HIV means human immunodeficiency virus while AIDS is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. When a person acquires HIV, the virus will not attack anything on your body except your white blood cells. These cells are your “armies” against the possible diseases. Whenever a strange virus or bad viruses attack your body, the white blood cells will naturally stand on guard and attack any foreign organism in the body. That’s why when a person gets sick, even though there’s no medical attention given, the body will still heal because of the white blood cells. On the other hand HIV doesn’t do anything to your body but it attacks the source and slowly destroys the “armies” inside your body. Since it doesn’t give you any complications, HIV almost doesn’t have any symptoms associated with it. You may experience flu or sore throat but it really differs with each person. As the ability to ward off bad elements in our body differs because of health, symptoms will vary. Most of the time it will be mistaken as something different since the symptoms is also common with other things.
Depending on the health of the person, HIV will mutate into AIDS from eight to 10 years from infection. Even though a person is very healthy, the white blood cells will be slowly destroyed and eventually AIDS will commence, and nothing will protect the person from any diseases. Eventually a person will die of various diseases that range from TB, cancer, Leukemia and other fatal diseases.
Knowing when you have AIDS could be difficult. But if you have the littlest suspicion that you may have HIV, immediately consult a doctor for proper testing. Even though discrimination against this disease is punishable by law, those that are experiencing the symptoms or even know they have will still hesitate because of our natural reaction. Plus there’s a concern of getting the information leaked to the society, and discrimination will still happen in various forms.
Home testing kits are now available in the country. But technically it will not be something that you can do yourself. With the kit that you can order online, extract a small blood sample from your body and send them to a lab sanctioned by the government. The product is called Home Access HIV Kit, manufactured by Home Access Health. You will only be identified by your access number with the box that you send to the company. After a few weeks you call their toll free number and listen to the recorded message of the results. It’s even recommended to get a test every 6 months if you’re sexually active.
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this kind of info must be useful 4 my hiv friends on positivesingles.com, i will tell them asap.
and the situation u said is quite right, we hope these hivs can live more positively.
all the best*_*
Comment by Ada — October 4, 2007 @ 2:39 am