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HIV/AIDS
HOW DO YOU GET IT?
WHAT HAPPENS ONCE
YOU GET HIV?

WHAT DOES "AIDS"

MEAN?
AIDS stands for
Acquired
Immune
Deficiency
Syndrome

Acquired means you can

get infected with it;
Immune Deficiency means
a weakness in the body's system
that fights diseases.
Syndrome means
a group of health problems
that make up a disease.

AIDS is caused
by a virus:

H- human
I - mmunodeficiency
V - virus

HOW DO YOU GET AIDS?

You can get infected with
HIV from anyone who's
infected
even if they don't look sick!!!

GLOBAL
STATISTICS 2007
PEOPLE with
HIV/AIDS

PEOPLE NEWLY
INFECTED
DEATHS FROM
AIDS
DYING FROM
AIDS

33.2 MILLION
2.5 MILLION
2.1 MILLION
6,000 DAILY

Most people get HIV by:

Sharing
sharp
instruments
Having
sex
an
Being born towith
a mother
withinfected
blood asperson
in tattooing,
who is infected or
skin cutting & drugs; through
drinking the breast milk
blood products
of an infected woman

HIV cannot be transmitted by:

Coughing, sneezing Toilets
Insect bites
Handshakes
Touching, hugging Work or school
contact
Water, food
Kissing

Telephones

Public baths/pools

Cups, glasses,

plates, or other
utensils

HIV in the blood

CUSTOM-MADE
ANTIBODIES

MACROPHAGES

which eat up all foreign

invaders

KILLER T-CELLS
which seek out
and destroy cells
already HIV-infected

This
defense
is
coordinated
But HIV has an ingenious battle
by
so-called
T-HELPER
strategy: it attacks the T cells
themselves,CELLS.
crippling the body's
defenses.

It fits perfectly into a shape on

the T cell. This shape is a
HIV has a special shape on
protein called CD4. The virus
its surface.
can now enter and infect
the cell.

INFECTED
T-HELPER CELLS

Infected T-cell
budding new
viruses

Opportunistic infections in the

bloodstream of a person with
AIDS

PRIMARY HIV
ILLNESS
- begins between 10 days and six
weeks after HIV exposure
- most people experience it three
weeks after exposure

swollenfever
lymph glands
night
soressweats
in the mouth
sore throat
headache

stomach
loss ofache
appetite
diarrhea

skin
rash
weight
loss
sore muscles and
joints

Towards the late stage, the so-called

opportunistic infections Pneumocystis
carinii pneumonia, mycobacterium
AIDS-defining
illness
avium
and tuberculosis, Toxoplasmosis
encephalitis, Cryptococcosis meningitis
and certain types of cancers will set in.

HOW DO YOU FIND OUT

IF YOU HAVE HIV?
RAPID TESTING
POSSIBLE RESULTS
NEGATIVE-TRUE NEGATIVE OR
WINDOW PERIOD
POSITIVE
INVALID

PREVENTION
CONDOM???
BE FAITHFUL
EDUCATION
CHANGE YOUR
DELAY SEX
LIFESTYLE
ABSTINENCE

TREATMENT
HAART Highly Active Anti-Retroviral
Therapy; a combination of at least three
Anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs to suppress
viral replication and progression of HIV
disease by reducing the viral load to
undetectable levels
Eat well, sleep well, pray well, bathe well,
live well, love well!

There are no condom "successes" in

Africa. Something like 700 million
condoms are shipped to the continent,
year in and year out, courtesy of the
U.N., the U.S., and the E.U., yet
infection rates remain stubbornly high.

The UNICEF official approvingly

cites Botswana's commitment to
condoms "Let us follow the
That's
the
example
government of Botswana"
thebut
rest
of the
world
about
35 percent
of that country's
shouldpopulation
follow?is infected.

Just as with the risk of pregnancy and other

STDs, there is still a small risk that AIDS
could be contracted from an HIV positive
partner even if you use a condom correctly.
One recent study estimated that as many as
17% of uninfected spouses became infected
with the AIDS virus from their partner, even
though they used condoms correctly 100% of
the time.

THANK YOU!

PREPARED BY: SR. MARIA ELENA ADRE, FDCC