HIV compromises the immune system, leading to AIDS. Early HIV symptoms include fever and swollen glands. Late stage AIDS symptoms include weight loss, fatigue, and infections. HIV is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids like during unprotected sex or sharing needles. Prevention methods include condoms, needle exchange programs, and avoiding contact with infected fluids. Currently over 33 million people have HIV/AIDS globally, with most cases in sub-Saharan Africa.

1. HIV/AIDS
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2. Wh a t a r e H I V
a n d AI DS?
 HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus , the virus
compromises the body’s ability to handle diseases and
causes aids.
 AIDS: acquired immune deficiency syndrome, it is related
to HIV but they are not the same. A person has AIDS only
in its final stages of HIV, after the immune system
becomes unable to defend itself again foreign invader like
bacteria, other viruses and allows a certain development
on cancer.

3. Si g n s &
S y mp t o ms

4. Early Stage of HIV: Symptoms
Symptoms can include:
•Fever (this is the most common symptom)
•Swollen glands
•Sore throat
•Rash
•Fatigue
•Muscle and joint aches and pains
•Headache

5. Progression to AIDS: Symptoms
 During this late stage of HIV infection, people infected with HIV
may have the following symptoms:
 Rapid weight loss
 Recurring fever or profuse night sweats
 Extreme and unexplained tiredness
 Prolonged swelling of the lymph glands in the armpits, groin,
or neck
 Diarrhoea that lasts for more than a week
 Sores of the mouth, anus, or genitals
 Pneumonia
 Red, brown, pink, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or
inside the mouth, nose, or eyelids
 Memory loss, depression, and other neurologic disorders

7. How does one get HIV/AIDS?

8. Overview of HIV Treatments

9. Prevention
 Many people have been infected with HIV by sharing needles.
If you are using needles for steroids, hormones, or other
drugs
 Never share needles.
 Get into a needle-exchange program.
 Be sure to disinfect the needles you use.
 Don't share personal items that may have blood on them.
This includes toothbrushes, razors, needles for piercing or
tattooing, and blades for cutting or scarring.

10.  VERY LOW RISK — No
reported HIV infections due to
these behaviours

fantasy, cyber sex, or phone sex
 using clean sex toys
 masturbation or mutual
masturbation
 manual stimulation of one another
 touching or massage
 fondling or body rubbing
 kissing
 oral sex on a man with a condom
 oral sex on a woman with a Glyde
dam or plastic wrap

 LOW RISK — Very few reported
HIV infections due to these
behaviours

deep kissing that causes bleeding
 vaginal intercourse with a condom
or female condom
 anal intercourse with a condom or
female condom
 oral sex

 (Try not to get semen, vaginal
fluids, or blood into the mouth or
on broken skin.)

11. The Global HIV/AIDS Crisis Today

12. •33.4 million are currently living with HIV/AIDS
•More than 25 million people have died of AIDS worldwide since
the first cases were reported in 1981.
•In 2008, 2 million people died due to HIV/AIDS, and another 2.7
million were newly infected.
•While cases have been reported in all regions of the
world, almost all those living with HIV (97%) reside in low- and
middle-income countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
•According to the World Health Organization (WHO), most
people living with HIV or at risk for HIV do not have access to
prevention, care, and treatment, and there is still no cure.