AIDS 101- What You Absolutely Need to KnowWritten by Mansi gupta
Introduction Due both to stigma and awareness program attached with it, now AIDS has become a common household term. There are very less people who actually know that exact word is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS in short. Because of morbidity and mortality attached and also because of ignorance about it there are lots and lots of myths against this deadly disease. This alone shows anxiety and concern of general mass.History The virus for this disease is thought to have transmitted from simian monkeys in forests of Africa to humans and from there it traveled to USA and different countries. It was brewing in bodies till in 1981 in USA Center for Disease Control and prevention (CDC) recognized it for first time and reported that there was an unexplained occurrence of an unusual pneumonia in a few homosexuals. Soon disease was to be found in intravenous drug users. But it was only in 1983 that causative virus was isolated from a patient and then further classified. Obviously because of ignorance initially information was confined to only certain specific institutions in early 1980s. Then as disease became more prevalent and showed its mortality pattern more and more people became aware of this disease. Today it’s a topic of concern for every type of doctor be it a family physician, obstetrician, dentist, dermatologist or any other field. HIV and AIDS AIDS is a disease, as name suggests, in which person over a period of time loses his power of immunity to fight infections and hence he is a prey to a host of infections which otherwise wont have occurred. The causative organism is a virus called Human Immunodeficiency Virus. On gaining entry into body of a subject through another patient’s body fluids such as blood, blood products, semen, etc. virus remains in lymphatic system and gets replicated. Then over a period of years it reduces body’s immune system.
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