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HIV/AIDS
AIDS (Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). - AIDS was discovered in 1981. - Caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). - Attacks the body's immune system so it cannot fight off other diseases. So basically it's not the AIDS that kills, but the diseases aquired later on.. - Contaminates by exhangeing body fluids: Sexual contact, use of contaminated needles, breastfeeding and so on. . . . - 90% of HIV-victims don't know they have it. - Widespread in African and other third world countries.
Cure? - Use a condom to prevent contamination in the first place. (condom use-programs have succeded in decreasing the number of HIV-infections). - ARV = medical treatment that slows down the HIV-process and weakens the virus.
