HIV & Aids
By :Amina Omar
Hiv and Aids
What it means
definition of Hivs~The human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive.Definition of Aids~a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy.
8 facts about HIV&Aids
*HIV is a disease of the human immune system caused by infection with
Immunodeficiency virus.
*Aids is a final stage of HIV disease which causes severe damage to the immune system
* estimated that 22.5 millions of people are effected by HIV and Aids
* there's no functional cure for HIV and aids
*HIV can't be spread through someone who has it and is talking to you
*HIV fights the CD4 cells
* HIV and aids are spread through sexual contact
*More than 1 million adults and children die from HIV and aids in Africa
What I discovered about Aids and HIV in Africa
1.Something I learned is fourty-nine percent of all maternal deaths in South Africa is attributable to HIV and Aids .
2.Aids and HIV is global problem in Africa
3.Aids and HIV are two different things