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Aids
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
is a set of symptoms and infections resulting from the damage to the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).



Contents

  • 1 Symptoms
    • 1.1 Pulmonary infections
    • 1.2 Gastrointestinal infections
    • 1.3 Neurological and psychiatric involvement
    • 1.4 Tumors and malignancies
  • 2 Cause
    • 2.1 Sexual transmission
    • 2.2 Exposure to blood-borne
    • 2.3 Perinatal transmission
  • 3 Pathophysiology
    • 3.1 Cells affected
      • 3.1.1 The effect
  • 4 Diagnosis
    • 4.1 WHO disease staging system
    • 4.2 CDC classification system
    • 4.3 HIV test
  • 5 Prevention
    • 5.1 Sexual contact
    • 5.2 Exposure to infected body fluids
    • 5.3 Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT)
  • 6 Treatment
    • 6.1 Antiviral therapy
    • 6.2 Experimental and proposed treatments
    • 6.3 Alternative medicine
  • 7 Prognosis
  • 8 Epidemiology
  • 9 History
  • 10 Society and culture
    • 10.1 Stigma
    • 10.2 Economic impact
    • 10.3 AIDS denialism
    • 10.4 Active pursuit of HIV infection
  • Ang Gumawa