¿How to know if you have HIV / AIDS?

The most used test called Elisa test, which does not detect the virus, but the presence of antibodies that the body makes to defend against the virus. To be able to find the antibodies in the blood, it is necessary to take the examination 3 months after the last time you were in a risk of acquiring HIV (eg after having sex without a condom). This waiting time is called "window period".

Ideally, the test will be accompanied by guidance or counseling before and after realizing it, to analyze situations of risk which has been exposed, clarify doubts and fears that have HIV / AIDS and provide tools for "negotiating" condom use with partners.

¿HIV have symptoms?

You can not reliably diagnose HIV infection or AIDS if you take intoaccount only the symptoms. The only way to know for sure if aperson is infected with HIV is to get tested for HIV.

People living with HIV may feel and versecompletamente well.However, it is possible that your immune system is damaged. It is important to remember that once infected with HIV alguienestá can transmit the virus immediately, even if that person feels healthy.

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. If a person is infected with HIV do not have an effective antiretroviral treatment, HIV weakens the immune system over time. As a result, they become morevulnerable to opportunistic infections.

¿What is HIV Syndrome?

HIV syndrome is the name given to the first stage of HIV infection,when a person is infected with HIV.

¿What happens after a person contracts HIV?

After being infected with HIV, the body is working hard to attack the virus. When the body fights the virus can not make as many copies of itself. Although the person still has HIV, begin again to look good and feel good. The results of routine blood tests are normal.
However, during this time, the virus is still attacking the lymph nodes. Lymph nodes are the centers of the body's immune system. The virus may also attack and damage brain tissue slowly.
For 10 to 15 years, HIV kills so many CD4 cells that the body can not fight infections. When the CD4 count is 200 or less per ml, the person has AIDS (a normal count is 600 to 1000). Once the person has AIDS, you can easily get many serious infections.

¿What happens once the disease is contracted during pregnancy and untreated?

EFFECTS OF AIDS IN PREGNANCY:

• Infertility
• Repeated abortions
• Premature babies
• Intrauterine growth retardation
• Of fetuses Births stillbirths
• Congenital abnormalities
• Embryopathy

Treatment of patients with HIV

• To date, no drug or therapy can cure AIDS.
• It is unlikely that the availability of AIDS vaccines in the near future.
• The best standard treatment currently available is a three antirretroviales combinanciòn (ARV).
• ARVs are not available worldwide, are expensive and must be managed properly.

Vaccination of children with HIV

• All asymptomatic children infected with HIV should receive the standard vaccines.
• All symptomatic children, infected with the HIV virus-related complex (ARC) or AIDS should receive inactivated vaccines.