Acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a chronic, life-threatening disease caused
by a virus called human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The virus and the
infection are known as HIV. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a term used to refer to
the later stages of the infection.
Your body’s immune protects you from diseases. But when the HIV virus attacks your body’s Immune it damages and/or destroys the Cells of your Immune System making you easily prone to various infections.
Your body loses its ability to fight off viruses, bacteria and fungi that cause infections and disease.
Causes of HIV
HIV spreads through sex—oral, anal or vaginal—with an infected person or through blood when you share a needle used by an infected person for injecting yourself with drugs. Most commonly, the virus passes from person to person through body fluids such as blood, vaginal fluids and Semen
Babies born to infected mothers are also at a high risk of getting infected during pregnancy, delivery or breastfeeding. But if women receive treatment for HIV infection during pregnancy, the risk to their babies is significantly reduced.
Rayees Ahmad Wani
Clinical Manager
Asha USA mini Medicine Citi
Your body’s immune protects you from diseases. But when the HIV virus attacks your body’s Immune it damages and/or destroys the Cells of your Immune System making you easily prone to various infections.
Your body loses its ability to fight off viruses, bacteria and fungi that cause infections and disease.
HIV spreads through sex—oral, anal or vaginal—with an infected person or through blood when you share a needle used by an infected person for injecting yourself with drugs. Most commonly, the virus passes from person to person through body fluids such as blood, vaginal fluids and Semen
Babies born to infected mothers are also at a high risk of getting infected during pregnancy, delivery or breastfeeding. But if women receive treatment for HIV infection during pregnancy, the risk to their babies is significantly reduced.
Rayees Ahmad Wani
Clinical Manager
Asha USA mini Medicine Citi
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