I regulary have sex and i have been involved with more than one female. I use contraceptive but at times you may say in the second go, i dont. I got the aids test done and it shows that its negative. But still need to know more. As i am with two females involved at the same time. Just so you are not misinformed,
MYTH : HIV DOESN'T CAUSE AIDS:
Proof that HIV is the cause of AIDS is overwhelming. National Academy of Sciences, CDC, Institute of Medicine, NIH, AMA, Canadian CDC, Pasteur Institute, UNAIDS, and WHO all agree. Google "HIV and AIDS Myths Debunked" to find a page at AIDSvideos with data and references from research studies published in peer-reviewed scientific journals showing that HIV causes AIDS and debunking common myths. Or watch my educational videos such as "The Top Ten Myths About HIV/AIDS."
Responsible scientists agree that HIV causes the disease AIDS. People who are HIV negative do not develop AIDS. We have seen people go from HIV negative to HIV positive to clinical AIDS countless times. There is a correlation between the viral load in a person's blood and the drop in the patient's CD4 count and increase in severity of disease symptoms. When antiretroviral drugs are used and cut the patient's viral load, the CD4 count can rebound and AIDS symptoms can improve.
NIAID: By 12/31/94, "CDC had received reports of 42 health care workers in the United States with documented, occupationally acquired HIV infection, of whom 17 have developed AIDS in the absence of other risk factors .... These individuals all had evidence of HIV seroconversion following a discrete percutaneous or mucocutaneous exposure to blood, body fluids or other clinical laboratory specimens containing HIV." [CDC, "HIV/AIDS surveillance report, 1994 year-end edition," 1995a;6(no.2).]
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NIAID "Evidence That HIV Causes AIDS:" "through December 1999, the CDC had received reports of 56 health care workers in the United States with documented, occupationally acquired HIV infection, of whom 25 have developed AIDS in the absence of other risk factors."
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NIAID "Relationship Between HIV and AIDS": Known HIV seroconversion followed by development of AIDS "has been repeatedly observed in pediatric and adult blood transfusion," in mother-to-child transmission, "and in studies of hemophilia, injection drug use, and sexual transmission in which the time of seroconversion can be documented using serial blood samples." [Ward 89, Ashton 94, ECS 91&92, Turner 93, Blanche 94,Goedert 89, Rezza 89, Biggar 90, Alcabes 93, Gisecke 90, Buchbinder 94, Sabin 93]
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NIAID "Evidence That HIV Causes AIDS:" "in a 10-year study in the Netherlands, researchers followed 11 children who had become infected with HIV as neonates by small aliquots of plasma from a single HIV-infected donor. During the 10-year period, eight of the children died of AIDS. Of the remaining three children, all showed a progressive decline in cellular immunity, and two of the three had symptoms probably related to HIV infection (van den Berg et al. Acta Paediatr 1994;83:17)"
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NIAID "Evidence:" "transmission of HIV from a Florida dentist to six patients has been documented by genetic analyses of virus isolated from both .... The dentist and three of the patients developed AIDS and died, and at least one of the other patients has developed AIDS. Five of the patients had no HIV risk factors other than multiple visits to the dentist for invasive procedures (O'Brien, Goedert. Curr Opin Immunol 1996;8:613; O'Brien, 1997; Ciesielski et al. Ann Intern Med 1994;121:886)."
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NIAID: "Among HIV-infected patients who receive anti-HIV therapy, those whose viral loads are driven to low levels are much less likely to develop AIDS or die than patients who do not respond to therapy. Such an effect would not be seen if HIV did not have a central role in causing AIDS." [Montaner AIDS 1998;12:F23; Palumbo JAMA 1998;279:756; O'Brien NEJM 1996;334:426; Katzenstein NEJM 1996;335:1091; Marschner J Infect Dis 1998;177:40; Hammer NEJM 1997;337:725; Cameron Lancet 1998;351:543]
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NIAID: Cases have been documented where HIV+ mothers gave birth to twins where one was HIV-infected and the other wasn't. "The HIV-infected children developed AIDS, while the other children remained clinically and immunologically normal." [Park. J Clin Microbiol 1987;25:1119; Menez-Bautista. Am J Dis Child 1986;140:678; Thomas. Pediatrics 1990;86:774; Young. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1990;9:454; Barlow and Mok. Arch Dis Child 1993;68:507; Guerrero Vazquez. An Esp Pediatr 1993;39:445]
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NIAID: Animal models also show that HIV causes AIDS. "Chimpanzees experimentally infected with HIV have developed severe immunosuppression and AIDS. In severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) mice given a human immune system, HIV produces similar patterns of cell killing and pathogenesis as seen in people. HIV-2 .... also causes an AIDS-like syndrome in baboons." [O'Neil et al. J Infect Dis 2000;182:1051; Aldrovandi et al. Nature 1993;363:732; Locher et al. Arch Pathol Lab Med 1998;22:523]
Myth: AIDS is Caused By Antiretroviral Medications (ARVs)
Antiretroviral medications (ARVs) do not cause AIDS. Clinical AIDS including all of its symptoms has been diagnosed in countless people who were never previously treated with ARVs. On average, people who are diagnosed with clinical AIDS and put on ARVs live longer than those diagnosed with clinical AIDS who are not put on ARVs. ARVs treat AIDS, not cause it. HIV is the cause of AIDS.
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Myth: Antiretroviral Medications (ARVs) Make People Sicker
ARVs do sometimes have unpleasant side effects. But remember: (1) often people are put on ARVs because they're already becoming sick with a low CD4 count and/or clinical AIDS symptoms, and they're no panacea, so it's no surprise if people on ARVs still look sick, and (2) they might be sicker or dead if they weren't on the ARVs. Studies have proven that ARVs are safe and effective for treating clinical AIDS. The death rate is lower for those on ARVs than those not treated. First of all, AIDS is the advanced stage of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus - HIV. The first symptoms of HIV may happen after 6 weeks of contracting the virus, they include fever, rash, muscles aches and swollen lymph nodes and glands. However, these symptoms aren't apparent in a lot of people.
The longer you have HIV the more prone to illness you will be, even common colds will effect you a lot more than other people. White Blood Cells are the main component of the immune system. The virus attacks your white blood cells by capturing and masking them.
After about 8 to 10 years, (or if you're taking HIV medication, it can be prolonged to about 15 years) HIV will develop into AIDS. This is when more serious symptoms start happening, such as.. chronic yeast infections, fever/night sweats, easy bruising, bouts of extreme exhaustion, unexplained rashes, Appearance of purplish lesions on the skin or inside mouth, Sudden unexplained weight loss, Chronic diarrhea lasting for a month or more. Know more what? I'll tell you more, always wear a condom! You can be exposed to the HIV virus and not test positive for up to 6 months. So you probably should continue getting tests bi-annually as long as you are having unprotected sex. There are a few symptoms of aids, but it will most likely show in a test. If you continually get sick with diseases such as pneumonia I would be concerned. Aids patients may also have unexplained lesions on their skin. You should start using protection. There are other STDs you can get that are pretty nasty. Burning during urination and discharge could be chlamydia or gonorrhea. To test for those STDs, they will stick a cotton swab in your urethra. It is very uncomfortable. However, those are treatable for now. Another STD you could get is herpes. Herpes simplex 1 will give you cold sores on your lips and herpes simplex 2 is on your genitals. Usually you will get burning and itching and gross pussy lesions. Currently Herpes is not treatable. Start using condoms. |
