AIDS: A Serious Threat to Humanity

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and it also enters into the blood by sharing common needles for injecting drugs, through blood transfusion, through sexual relations with an already infected person or passed on from an infected mother to the child. HIV is a slow acting virus that typically lies dormant or takes years to produce illness in an infected person. This is in sharp contrast to most viruses which cause diseases in a matter of days or weeks. Over the decade or so during which an HIV-positive persons immunity defenses get gradually eroded, various pathogens in the advantage of this weakness to attack and cause illness of and on. This is why infections and cancers seen in HIV-positive individuals are called `opportunistic'.

There are several treatments and therapies for the cure of these opportunistic meladies and for relief of symptoms associated with them including fever, coughing, itching, asthamatic tendencies, choking of gullet or chronic diarrhea. Other drugs developed more recently attack ...

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