Aids Facts About Prevention

Disease Facts Found in tears, saliva,nervous system tissue, spinal fluid, and breast milk

Symptoms HIV have no symptoms for 10 years but can still transmit disease Immune system starts to fail and aids develop if not treated Main result of death is from infections that do not develop in healthy people

Prevention Don't share needles for injections Get HIV therapy if you are infected - especially if you are pregnant Safe sex Avoid contact with other people's blood ; use gloves Don't donate blood or organs if you are HIV positive Don't breast feed if you are HIV positive Seek medical help as soon as you think you are infected with HIV

Preventions Sexual contact Body fluid exposure Mother to child Education

Medications Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs). NNRTIs disable a protein needed by HIV to make copies of itself. Examples include efavirenz (Sustiva), etravirine (Intelence) and nevirapine (Viramune). Protease inhibitors (PIs). PIs disable protease, another protein that HIV needs to make copies of itself. Examples include atazanavir (Reyataz), darunavir (Prezista), fosamprenavir (Lexiva) and ritonavir (Norvir).

Local 1.7 million people in the US have had it since Since then 615,000 people have died from AIDS.

Works Cited Aids.Gov /pmh

History of AIDS

Doctors found out about AIDS in the late 1970s-1980s. The first people infected with AIDS were homosexual.

The whole world helped research AIDS. In 1983, the Institute Pasteur of France discovered that it was caused by HIV.

On March 18, 1987, AZT was the first drug to be approved to treat AIDS. HIV started to mutate after prolonged use of AZT.

Dr. Ho is currently working on a vaccine for AIDS.