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AIDS, AIDS - AIDS News, AIDS - Alternative medicine, AIDS - Alternative theories, AIDS - Clinical symptoms of AIDS, AIDS - Epidemiology, AIDS - HIV test, AIDS - Infection by HIV, AIDS - Mother to child transmission, AIDS - Origin of HIV/AIDS, AIDS - Prevention, AIDS - Prevention of blood or blood product route of HIV transmission, AIDS - Prevention of sexual transmission of HIV, AIDS - Symptomology, AIDS - Transmission, AIDS - Treatment
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| ARTICLES RELATED TO AIDS - AIDS News | | | |  AIDS - AIDS News: Encyclopedia II - AIDS - Origin of HIV/AIDSThe official date for the beginning of the AIDS epidemic is marked as June 18, 1981, when the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention reported a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (now classified as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia) in five gay men in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. [16] Originally dubbed GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not gay. In 1982, the CDC introduced the term AIDS ...
See also:AIDS, AIDS - Infection by HIV, AIDS - Symptomology, AIDS - AIDS and HIV case definitions, AIDS - Clinical symptoms of AIDS, AIDS - Transmission, AIDS - Prevention, AIDS - Prevention of sexual transmission of HIV, AIDS - Prevention of blood or blood product route of HIV transmission, AIDS - Mother to child transmission, AIDS - Treatment, AIDS - Alternative medicine, AIDS - HIV test, AIDS - Epidemiology, AIDS - Origin of HIV/AIDS, AIDS - Alternative theories, AIDS - AIDS News Read more here: » AIDS: Encyclopedia II - AIDS - Origin of HIV/AIDS |
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AIDS - AIDS and HIV case definitions.
Since 1981, many different definitions have been developed for epidemiological surveillance such as the Bangui definition and the 1994 expanded World Health Organization AIDS case definition. However, these were never intended to be used for clinical staging of patients, for which they are neither sensitive nor specific. The World Health Organizations (WHO) staging system for HIV infection and disease, using clinical and laboratory data, can be used in developing countries and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Classification System can be ...
See also:AIDS, AIDS - Infection by HIV, AIDS - Diagnosis, AIDS - AIDS and HIV case definitions, AIDS - HIV test, AIDS - Symptoms, AIDS - The major pulmonary illnesses, AIDS - The major gastro-intestinal illnesses, AIDS - The major neurological illnesses, AIDS - HIV-associated malignancies, AIDS - Transmission, AIDS - Prevention, AIDS - Prevention of sexual transmission of HIV, AIDS - Prevention of blood or blood product route of HIV transmission, AIDS - Mother to child transmission, AIDS - Treatment, AIDS - Alternative medicine, AIDS - Epidemiology, AIDS - Origin of HIV/AIDS, AIDS - Alternative theories, AIDS - AIDS News Read more here: » AIDS: Encyclopedia II - AIDS - Diagnosis |
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| | | | | AIDS - AIDS News: Encyclopedia II - AIDS - Infection by HIV AIDS is the most severe manifestation of infection with HIV. HIV is a retrovirus that primarily infects vital components of the human immune system such as CD4+ T cells, macrophages and dendritic cells. It also directly and indirectly destroys CD4+ T cells. As CD4+ T cells are required for the proper functioning of the immune system, when enough CD4+ cells have been destroyed by HIV, the immune system barely works, leading to AIDS. Acute HIV infection progresses over time to clinical latent HIV infection and then to early symptomatic HIV inf ...
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| | | | | AIDS - AIDS News: Encyclopedia II - AIDS - Alternative theories A minority of scientists and activists question the connection between HIV and AIDS, or the existence of HIV, or the validity of current testing methods. These claims are met with resistance by, and often evoke frustration and hostility from, most of the scientific community, who accuse the dissidents of ignoring evidence in favor of HIV's role in AIDS, and irresponsibly posing a dangerous threat to public health by their continued activities. Dissidents assert that the current mainstream approach to AIDS, based on HIV causation, has resulte ...
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| | | | | AIDS - AIDS News: Encyclopedia II - AIDS - Transmission Since the beginning of the epidemic, three main transmission routes of HIV have been identified:
Sexual route. The majority of HIV infections have been, and still are, acquired through unprotected sexual relations. Sexual transmission occurs when there is contact between sexual secretions of one partner with the rectal, genital or mouth mucous membranes of another.
Blood or blood product route. This transmission route is particularly important for intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs and recipie ...
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