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HIV/AIDS, which most of you believe to be a single term referring to an infection that is controllable and treatable.

Actually speaking, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), which is the last and most serious stage of HIV disease resulting from the specific injures to the immune system.

Today, HIV/AIDS is becoming an epidemic, infecting millions of people worldwide.

Aids have no cure or vaccine but you have antiretroviral medication, known as HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) to slow the development from HIV to AIDS.

With HAART, you can recover from HIV/AIDS and live with HIV for a very long time. HAART, a great treatment option is now being recommended by United States National Institutes of Health to all patients with AIDS.

Actually, this virus is transmitted from person to person through blood exchange, oral sex, unhygienic hypodermic needles, or blood transfusion or from mother to the baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding.

In fact, you do not experience HIV/AIDS symptoms in the early stages. Moreover, the time it takes for AIDS symptoms to appear depends upon person to person. You feel and look healthy for years although you are attacked with AIDS virus.

AIDS-Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, generally, by listening this term, we all think of it as a sexual transmitted disease with no cure or no vaccine.

But, do you really know there is medicine for this deadly disease. Is it not really good news!

Actually, AIDS is the most advanced stages of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), a virus that damages cells of the body’s immune system, a system responsible for fighting against foreign cells in the body.

Literally, there is no cure however you have many medicines to fight against HIV infection and the infections as well as cancers that develop from it.

AIDS epidemic began in the early 1980s, where the patients with AIDS, rarely, lived longer than a few years. However, in these days, the patients with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, are living longer with healthier life.

Effective Medicines For AIDS Is It Not Really Great!

The reason for the increase in the life-span rate is various effective medicines to fight against the HIV/AIDS infection.

Most of these effective medicines fall into one of the following three categories

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that infects the cells of the human immune system, thus permitting opportunistic infections to eventually cause fatal diseases.

Actually, most of the people consider HIV as the “AIDS virus.”

But HIV is a very tiny that is not easy to catch but once it enters the human body, it automatically generates millions of its copies daily and finally devastates the body’s immune system.

Thus, the immune system finds difficulty in fighting against infectious diseases.

Ways HIV Is Transmitted:

Normally, HIV resides in blood and in other body fluids that contain blood or white blood cells, responsible for attacking and destroying the foreign cells in the body and it can be easily transmitted through several causes such as

Unprotected Sexual Intercourse: You will be infected with HIV virus when you have vaginal, anal or oral sex with an infected person and if you don’t use a condom or other barrier because that person’s blood, semen or vaginal secretions will directly enter your body.