Testing your knowledge on HIV/AIDS?
Saturday, May 15th, 2010 at
3:35 pm
What is the official date of the first reported AIDS cases?
What is the only proven defense against transmitting HIV/AIDS?
Does having HIV automatically give you AIDS?
What are the five main ways of transmitting HIV/AIDS from human to human?
If you are diagnosed with AIDS, what is the average life expectancy there after?
People being treated for HIV; can your life be extended these days and in average how long?
Who is prone to being infected?
I’ll ask more in another post. I am LIVID, especially with you young folks about your views on HIV/AIDS. If you don’t know the answer, do yourself a favor and google it.
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First AIDS case was a man who I believe died in the Congo in 1959/60.
Only proven defense is abstinence.
HIV does NOT automatically give you AIDS. People with HIV if treated properly can live their whole lives without having phased into AIDS.
Transmission includes:
1. Blood
2. Saliva
3. Semen
4. Vaginal fluids
5. Breast Milk
Life expectancy for someone with AIDS is tricky. It really depends on the individual, their immune system before they got the virus, the treatments if any they took when first getting the virus, etc.
With treatment I would have to say an additional 30 to 40 years from time of infection.
For those with HIV, with proper treatment, they can live a full life span.
Those who are prone to be in infected are those who practice unsafe sex, drug users (shared needle usage) and whom don’t get checked every six months.
It’s a shame that kids now a days truly don’t understand or know about the dangers around them. They think, ‘Oh I can just take a pill and it will be fine’. It’s ridiculous.
no idea
wrapping your willy
nope, it develops
unprotected sex, sharing needles,
5 years isn’t it? Max
no idea
EVERYONE
"What is the official date of the first reported AIDS cases?"
No idea.
"What is the only proven defense against transmitting HIV/AIDS?"
Safe sex or no sex.
"Does having HIV automatically give you AIDS?"
No, many have HIV for many years without it turning to AIDS. Treatments these days can keep HIV as HIV for a very long time (if not for the rest of ones life).
"What are the five main ways of transmitting HIV/AIDS from human to human?"
Penetrative sex
Blood
Being born with it (mom to child).
Using dirty needles
(5th? I’m not sure).
"If you are diagnosed with AIDS, what is the average life expectancy there after?"
I really think it depends..especially if you can afford the good treatments. I’d say about 10 years though?
"People being treated for HIV; can your life be extended these days and in average how long?"
Many years.
"Who is prone to being infected?"
Everyone? Actually, last I’ve heard..black women are the highest rate in (at least the US) contracting aids (for the past few years or so).
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Thanks for the interesting question.
Dunno
Abstinence
No
Any kind of sex, sharing needles
No idea
Everyone who doesn’t use a condom
P.S.To Beef Cake: GAYS AREN’T THE ONLY ONES WHO HAVE AIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY ARE PEOPLE SO IGNORANT????????????
1980′s?
abstinence or being in a monogamous relationship
some irish folks never get aids but have HIV
bodily fluids, blood infusion, sex, dirty needles thru drugs injections
20 years??
yes, for another 5/10 years?
ppl who have casual sex, sharing dirty needles
In the early 1980s 1982? ’83?
Not exchanging bodily fluids.
Not necessarily. And there have even been cases of people with AIDS that never had HIV, although this is less than half a % and faulty diagnostics could have been involved
Sharing injection equipment, unprotected sex, mother passing onto offspring, breast feeding…um I can’t think. Used to be blood transfusions but they are all screened now in the western world. In other places they often don’t, and also don’t sterilise equipment. So no op’s or acupuncture or anything in less developed places.
If it’s progressed to full blown AIDS, I think it’s less than a year.
If you treat if from the HIV stage and take the medication you can get 10 or 20 years or so, depending on other factors.
Anyone can be infected, but the most at risk are people who share injection equipment. (unprotected) Anal sex is more likely to pass it on because the membranes in the anus are thinner. (unprotected)Vaginal sex is also likely to pass it on. Oral sex is relatively safe, but there are risks. You can even get it from kissing although this is highly unlikely. Risk during sexual contact is increased if there are open cuts or sores or anything in an area where bodily fluids will be exchanged. I would also like to point out to others that HIV/AIDS is NOT a "gay disease"
What is the official date of the first reported AIDS cases? Not sure
What is the only proven defense against transmitting HIV/AIDS? Abstinence and not allowing any transference of internal body fluids with an infected person or blood transfusion and mot sharing needles.
Does having HIV automatically give you AIDS? No
What are the five main ways of transmitting HIV/AIDS from human to human? The only way is through a transference of internal bodily fluids I.E. transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk. The transmission can involve anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, hypodermic needles, between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding.
If you are diagnosed with AIDS, what is the average life expectancy there after? Depends on what country you live in how good your insurance is and how much money you have. If you have access to the best treatment available you can live 20-40 years, less if you are not 100% complaint with taking your meds.
People being treated for HIV; can your life be extended these days and in average how long? Again it depends on your social status, 20-40 years, less if you are not 100% complaint with taking your meds.
Who is prone to being infected? Anyone and everyone who has had sexual intercourse or a blood transfusion or has shared a needle or carried in the womb by an infected mother.