预防艾滋病（AIDS prevention）.docVIP

预防艾滋病（AIDS prevention） 1, what is AIDS? AIDS is the transliteration of English AIDS, its medical name is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Chinese in accordance with the English full name (Acquired lmmune Deficiency Syndrome) prefix acronym AIDS, transliteration as AIDS.. Expression of the name of the concept of AIDS, from which we can understand the AIDS three clearly defined: first, acquired: the cause is acquired rather than innate, is caused by the AIDS virus infectious disease. Second immune deficiency: in the pathogenesis, it is mainly caused by the damage of the human immune system, which leads to the reduction of the immune systems protective function and loss. Third. Syndrome: a complex syndrome characterized by clinical symptoms, opportunistic infections, and tumors caused by immune deficiency. 2, HIV infection and AIDS patients what is the difference? From the AIDS virus into the human body, the body began to struggle with it. It takes a while for a virus to multiply in the body. In the initial stage, the immune function of the infected person has not been seriously damaged, so there is no obvious symptoms. We call such an HIV infected person. When the immune function of infected were damaged to a certain extent, other bacteria will take advantage of a weak point, so many diseases, commonly known as opportunistic infections, such as pneumonia or severe diarrhea, some cancers, then infected with AIDS has become. From AIDS virus infection to AIDS patients can be from months to years, generally 8~10 years, up to 19 years or more. 3, how healthy people infected with HIV? AIDS mainly through sexual contact, blood and mother and child transmission of three ways. When healthy skin and mucosa wound, and the wound is exposed to HIV containing blood, semen, vaginal fluid, milk and wound exudate, there may be infected with the AIDS virus. 4, AIDS can be treated? Since the first discovery of AIDS in the United States in 1981, AIDS has spread throughout the world. A