HIV and AIDS

Question 1

What does HIV stand for?

Answer 1

Human immunodeficiency virus

Question 2

What does AIDS stand for?

Answer 2

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Question 3

How do people get HIV / AIDS ?

Answer 3

• unprotected sex
• contact between your blood and infected blood or blood contaminated body filled fluids
• from mother to child

Question 4

Why should you be tested for HIV/AIDS regularly?

Answer 4

So that you don’t accidentally spread the disease to others.

So you can take medication for it as soon as possible if you are infected.
This is important:
1. The medication doesn’t repair any damage done to organs or systems
2. Delay the onset of AIDS

Question 5

What medication do you take for HIV / AIDS? What does it do? What does it not do?

Answer 5

Antiretrovirals
They help control the levels of the virus in your body.
It does not cure you or fix the damage caused by the bites virus.

Question 6

What is the difference between HIV and AIDS

Answer 6

HIV is just the virus and you can have it for many years without symptoms.

AIDS is the last stage of the HIV infection when the body’s immune system is seriously damaged

Question 7

What do people HIV usually die from? Why?

Answer 7

Other infections that are usually easy to recover from eg. Pneumonia or diarrhea.
Because their immune system is weakened by the HIV.