I need help! 10 pts for best answer!?

I need help with my Health class homework. I've looked and looked through the book and can't find the answer to these 2 questions:

TRUE OR FALSE:
1. Being infected with AIDS does not necessarily mean a person has HIV.
2. Opportunistic Infections are rare in a person with a normal immune system, but they easily invade the body of a person with a weakened immune system.

Thanks if you can help!

1) FALSE,,however you also have it backwards being HIV+ doesnt automatically mean you have AIDS,,,AIDS is defined by the number of t-cells your system has left

2) True-as your body becomes weaken by the HIV or other factors (illness) an opportunistic infection can creep in and cause some serious harm,,,this holds true not only for HIV + patients but for some cancers as well!!

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True to both.

1. false. you contract HIV before getting AIDS
2. false. an opportunistic infection can be a cold, pneumonia, flu etc. with a person with a weakened immune system, it could kill you.

if a person with a healthy immune system gets a cold, their immune system easily fights it off. if a person with cancer (undergoing radiation/chemo) or HIV/AIDS, gets that same cold, their immune system has no "fight" left in it. that cold or other infection can easily take their body. people with AIDS/HIV don't die from the actual disease, they die from the opportunistic diseases.

Hiv is a retro virus leading to aids not the other way around.

anyone who has any autoimmune problems/deficiency is more apt to catch infections than a healthier person,but can happen..

Good luck in your studies

1. you have to have HIV before you get aids so # 1 is False

1. False
2. True

Actually, you can be HIV positive but, not have full-blown AIDS. Thanks to advances in medications, HIV can be significantly delayed into becoming AIDS. So, #1 is false ( it's the opposite that's true)
It is true that HIV/ AIDS patients' are more prone to rare, opportunist infections than with people who have a healthy immune system.
There are others' that have a compromised immune system ( chemo patients, for an example ) but, the opportunist infections are not always the same as those who suffer from HIV/AIDS.
Because of the opportunist infections that HIV/AIDS patients' receive, these infections can be clearly due to the virus that causes HIV/AIDS.