What are exactly AIDS?

i dont want the answer in scientific language. plz use simple language. my question is, what are exactly aids? if neither the boy nor the girl has hiv and they have a sex, will they get aids? if someone wants to have a baby, is there any possibillity that they will get aids? how to prevent aids and even hiv? how do aids are caused by breast feeding?
how to have baby without getting the mother or father aids or hiv?

and how to prevent other STDs?

i am not going to have a baby but i want this so that i will have a safe future.

i thank all of you for answering my question. now i dont have any doubts.
so i can't descide which is the best answer.

no u cant get it basically. and to put it in short terms aids.std's =bad lol. some std's are treatable some arent. HIV can be treated but like some stds there is no way of gettin rid of it seeing as there is no cure. it attacks ur immune system and any little sickness can kill you because you body will have no immune system to fight it off. be careful of your partners sex history and just use a condom. if anything you both should be tested. be safe, use protection.

It's a disease of the immune system. Your immune system is those parts of your body that include some blood cells, lymph nodes and other organs that protect you from infections.

When people have AIDS, their immune system doesn't work properly and they get unusual infections.

AIDS is caused by infection by a particular virus called HIV. You can only get HIV from someone else who has HIV.

HIV can pass from one person to another when they are having sex, but only if one person already has it.

A baby can get HIV from his mother through breastfeeding, but only if the mother already has HIV in her body.

HIV is the infection people get from unprotected sex, sharing needles for drug use and mother to child transmission IF the mother is HIV+.

IF neither partner have HIV you can not get it, but if either partner has had sex with ANYONE else, you need to get a HIV test done, especially when people are thinking about having a baby.

IF a mother is not HIV+ she can not infect a baby when she breast feeds.

HIV is prevented by not having sex, using condoms, or being in a relationship where both partners have tested negative and are only having sex with each other.

What is AIDS? What causes AIDS?
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.

An HIV-positive person receives an AIDS diagnosis after developing one of the CDC-defined AIDS indicator illnesses. An HIV-positive person can also receive an AIDS diagnosis on the basis of certain blood tests (CD4 counts) and may not have experienced any serious illnesses. A positive HIV test does not mean that a person has AIDS. A diagnosis of AIDS is made by a physician according to the CDC AIDS Case Definition.

Over time, infection with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) can weaken the immune system to the point that the system has difficulty fighting off certain infections. These types of infections are known as opportunistic infections. Many of the infections that cause problems or that can be life-threatening for people with AIDS are usually controlled by a healthy immune system. The immune system of a person with AIDS has weakened to the point that medical intervention may be necessary to prevent or treat serious illness.




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http://www.aids.org/info/what-causes-aid...

Aids stand for 鈥楢cquired Immune Deficiency鈥?syndrome, and basically it damages the immune system allowing other infections to pass through. The immune system can usually control these infections, but because it has been destroyed, the infections are allowed to be at their worst. When a person is healthy, their immune systems are strong enough to deal with these infections, but people with Aids are more likely to die from them.

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The only way for a child to get AIDS is for the mother to have aids. HIV is what comes first and it becomes AIDS. HIV is passed thorough bodily fluids coming in contact from a infected person to a non infected person.

It attacks your immune system and makes you weak against things like a cold or the flu. In short, you can't really die from aids but from the aids you can die from a cold or the flu.

ok aids is what you get after you have had HIV for years! its not curable but it can be treated. Aids targets your immune system meaning you'll get very sick and your body is weak!
you cant be around things that have allot of germs cus then you will get sick again! when a person has aids they have to be very careful of their sorroundings.

If neither the boy or the girl have HIV then their is no way of getting aids. But the again your never to sure that one or the other cheated and got it from somebody else! so always wear a condom! That is the safest way to go!

ok if someone wants a baby and the girl has hiv than their might be a chance that the baby will come out with hiv as well. Now if the guy has the hiv then most likely the girl and the baby will get it!

The best way to prevent hiv/aids is to have safe sex, better yet no sex until your committed! but as most people now a days hardly wait till marriage the best way is of course wear a condom!!!!! and even when your married like i said before always check your self and get tested cus you never know when someone is not being honest!

Reason that HIV is cause by breast feeding is cus the mom has HIV. Their is no other reason other than that.

With science now a days theirs a posability of the baby not coming out with HIV!

Once again like said before the best way to prevent all std's is to wear a condom. Or not have sex at all!!!!!!