World AIDS Day 2024: AIDS is a serious illness whose name alone is enough to scare people. It is an incurable disease. The risk of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is increasing worldwide. World AIDS Day is celebrated every year on December 1 to raise awareness and prevent this disease caused by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). The aim of celebrating this day is to make people aware of the disease and take precautions. So let us know how dangerous AIDS disease is, what are the first symptoms of AIDS and when should its treatment be started.
What is AIDS?
AIDS is a disease caused by infection with the HIV virus. This damages the immune system and weakens the body’s ability to function. In addition to sexually transmitted infections (STIs), there is a risk of transmission of this infection from mother to child through transfusion of infected blood, use of injections given to an infected person, pregnancy or breastfeeding.
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AIDS symptoms
1. HIV or AIDS infection is confirmed by a blood test. However, it can also be identified through certain symptoms.
2. In people infected with HIV, flu-like illness begins to appear within 2 to 4 weeks after the virus enters the body. Apart from this, fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, sore throat and mouth, and weight loss are also considered symptoms of this disease.
3. If this disease is not treated in time, the viral load in the blood increases, which makes this disease can become dangerous.
Who is most at risk of contracting AIDS?
1. Anyone can come into contact with HIV through unprotected sex.
2. There may be a risk of becoming infected by drawing blood from an infected person.
prevention of HIV infection
1. There is no vaccine yet to prevent HIV infection. However, some medical reports also mention trials for the treatment of HIV or AIDS. However, AIDS remains an incurable disease.
2. This infection is not spread by shaking hands, nor by droplets from the sneezes and coughs of an infected person, nor by eating food with an infected person, so there is no discrimination against these people.
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