1. HIV and AIDS

2. People with HIV/AIDS

3. HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus: is a pathogen that destroys infection-fighting T cells in the body.
HIV enters the body – attaches to a molecule called CD4 on helper T cells
HIV then takes control of the helper T cells and reproduces more HIV. It attacks and takes control of the helper T cells.

7. Signs of HIV
Flu-like symptoms
Fever
Sore throat
Night sweats, etc.

8. HIV Transmission
Having sexual contact with an infected person. Exposed blood vessels in small cuts or tiny cracks in mucous membranes.
Male to male
Male to female
Female to male
Female to female

9. How HIV is not Transmitted
Closed mouth kissing
Hugging
Touching
Coughing or sneezing
Shared towels
Being bitten by insects
Donating blood
Swimming in a pool
Using sports equipment

11. Opportunistic Infection: infection that develops in a person with a weak immune system.
Thrush: fungal infection of the tongue and mouth.
Oral hairy leukoplakia: infection with fuzzy white patches on the tongue.
Pneumonia (PCP): form of pneumonia
Tuberculosis: bacterial infection of the lungs
Kaposi’s Sarcoma (KS): Type of cancer, purplish lesions and tumors on the skin and linings of the internal organs.

12. Kaposi’s Sarcoma

13. Oral Hairy Leukoplakia

14. Thrush

15. Tuberculosis

16. Opportunistic Infection (cont.)
AIDS Dementia Complex: loss of brain function.
HIV Wasting Syndrome: loss of body weight.

17. AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome):
Half of all people infected with HIV have developed AIDS within ten years.
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome):
a person infected with HIV who has 200 or fewer helper T cells per microliter of blood
an opportunistic infection.

18. Increase Risk Having multiple sex partners
Having sex with a prostitute
Having other sexually transmitted diseases
Injection equipment
Tattoos and body piercing
Contact with blood or other body fluids, mucous membranes, or broken skin
Blood Transfusion
Tissue Transplant (organ donation)
Born to a mother infected with HIV

19. HIV Testing
HIV antibody test: HIV enters the body, the immune system responds
Test detects HIV antibodies in the blood
Show up within 3 to 6 months of infection
ELISA: blood test
Western blot: confirm an ELISA test

20. HIV Testing (cont.)
Home collection kit for HIV testing: blood sample at home
HIV positive: HIV antibodies present in the blood
HIV negative: Does not have antibodies

21. Treatment DDI: slows down rate at which HIV multiplies.
AZT: slows down rate at which HIV multiplies.
Protease Inhibitors: antiviral drugs that decrease the amount of HIV in the blood and increase the helper T cell count.

22. Stats
About 1.2 million people in the United States were living with HIV at the end of 2011, the most recent year this information was available. Of those people, about 14% do not know they are infected.
Worldwide, there were about 2.1 million new cases of HIV in About 35 million people are living with HIV around the world.
An estimated 1.5 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses in 2013, and an estimated 39 million people with AIDS have died worldwide since the epidemic began. Sub-Saharan Africa bears the biggest burden of HIV/AIDS, with almost 70% of the global total of new HIV infections for 2013.

23. Stats Males accounted for 74% of the population living with HIV.
The largest population living with HIV (45%) comprised men who have sex with men (MSM), followed by persons infected through high-risk heterosexual contact (27%), those infected through injection drug use (22%), and those who were exposed through both male-to-male sexual contact and injection drug use (5%).

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