 AIDS- Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, is a serious viral disease that destroys the body’s immune system  HIV-The virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) that causes AIDS.  Of the 40,000 new HIV infections each year, half of those occur in people younger than 25 years old  HIV is a Virus, AIDS is a Disease that results from an HIV virus infection.  A person can have HIV and not AIDS  Incubation Period- from the time a person has been infected with the HIV virus, until the individual shows symptoms.  First four cases 1981, first known case was 1959  Most individuals infected with HIV develop AIDS and die!!!!

 Not known for sure where it came.  Believed to be from Central Africa, now a global problem(epidemic)  Worldwide approximately one in 100 adults aged 15 to 49 is infected with HIV  Monkey virus similar to HIV virus believed to be the cause.

 Sexual Contact  Most common way HIV is spread  Not only sexual intercourse, can be transmitted through oral sex.  Sharing Needles  Blood Transfusion  Mother to Child

 Fights your Immune System  Opportunistic Infection- an infection that happens only in people whose immune systems are not working very well.  People die from this, or cancers  Lungs  Pneumonia  Skin  Sarcoma  Nervous System  Functional problems  Digestive system  Diarrhea

Combination Therapy- a combination of several drugs  Drugs slow the reproduction of the HIV Virus, and lengthen Incubation period.  No real treatment for AIDS, once developed other ailments are treated.  HIV/AIDS Epidemic  Large Cities mostly effected  Africa is hardest hit continent  Spreading in Asia  Spreading in under developed countries  40 million people infected, 22 million have died from it