HIV (‘Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus’)
HIV is abbreviated as ‘human immuno-deficiency virus’. Till date, there is no such medicine found by researchers. That means that there is no cure to HIV. A person infected by HIV, weakens day by day. The HIV virus mainly attacks and weakens the immune system of the body. A person infected by HIV might develop cancers or rare infections.
How is it transmitted
The virus HIV can only be transmitted or infected if the infected blood, vaginal fluids, semen or breast milk, gets inside to another persons body.
The 2 important ways through which a person can be infected by the HIV virus is:
Having anal or vaginal sexual intercourse (without using a condom) with an infected person
Utilization of syringe or needles, which are already utilized by another person who is infected with the virus
A pregnant woman who is infected by HIV can transmit the virus to her baby, during or before the birth or through breast feeding. Advanced treatment & concern for women with ‘HIV’ means fewer kids are currently born with ‘HIV’ in the United Kingdom.
Other possible ways of transmission comprise:
Sport, if the virus infected blood get into the cut or wound In very rare cases, by biting or fighting
Kissing, though kissing does not transmit the HIV because saliva do no comprise high amount of HIV
Using syringes or needles of a infected person Seeing a doctor, dentist or nurse doesn’t transmit HIV.
Receiving and giving oral sex
Receiving and giving first aid.
“What are the symptoms?”
Once a person is infected by HIV, there are no such symptoms or signs through which one can know that whether he is infected or not. Studies have proved that a person infected with HIV experiences FLU like symptoms.
Around 63, 500 people aged 15 to 60 are infected with HIV in United Kingdom.