HIV

HIV

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 HIV (human immunodeficiency infection) is an infection that assaults cells that help the body battle contamination, making an individual more defenseless against different contaminations and illnesses. It is spread by contact with certain organic liquids of an individual with HIV, most usually during unprotected (sex without a condom or HIV medication to forestall or treat HIV), or through sharing infusion drug hardware.

 Whenever left untreated, HIV can prompt the illness (AIDS).

 The human body can't dispose of HIV and no successful HIV fix exists. Along these lines, when you have HIV, you have it forever.

 In any case, by taking HIV medication (called antiretroviral treatment or ART), individuals with HIV can carry on with long and solid lives and forestall communicating HIV to their sexual accomplices. Also, there are compelling techniques to forestall getting HIV through sex or medication use, including pre-openness prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-openness prophylaxis (PEP).

 First distinguished in 1981, HIV is the reason for one of humankind's deadliest and most determined pestilences.

 What Is AIDS?

 AIDS is the late phase of HIV disease that happens when the body's insusceptible framework is severely harmed in view of the infection.

 In the U.S., the vast majority with HIV don't create AIDS since taking HIV medication consistently as recommended stops the movement of the sickness.

 An individual with HIV is considered to have advanced to AIDS when:

 •             the number of their CD4

 

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cells fall under 200 cells for each cubic millimeter of blood (200 cells/mm3). (In somebody with a solid resistant framework, CD4 tallies are somewhere in the range of 500 and 1,600 cells/mm3.) OR

 •             they create at least one astute disease paying little mind to their CD4 tally.

 Without HIV medication, individuals with AIDS ordinarily make due around 3 years. When somebody has a perilous crafty sickness, the future without therapy tumbles to around 1 year. HIV medication can in any case help individuals at this phase of HIV disease, and it can even be lifesaving. However, individuals who start ART not long after they get HIV experience more advantages—that is the reason HIV testing is so significant.

 How Do I Know If I Have HIV?

 The best way to know without a doubt in the event that you have HIV is to get tried. Testing is generally basic. You can ask your medical services supplier for an HIV test. Numerous clinical facilities, substance misuse programs, local area wellbeing focuses, and medical clinics offer them as well. You can likewise purchase a home testing unit at a drug store or on the web.

 To discover an HIV testing area close to you, utilize the HIV Services Locator.

HIV Services Locator

 HIV self-testing is likewise a choice. Self-testing permits individuals to take an HIV test and discover their outcome in their own home or other private areas. You can purchase an individual test pack at a drug store or on the web. Some wellbeing offices or local area based associations likewise give individual test packs to free.

 Peruse the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) certainty sheet on the OraQuick In-Home HIV Test, the solitary FDA-endorsed in-home HIV test.