World AIDS Day to make up for AIDS unpopular little knowledge

In recent years, the World Health Organization's propaganda, the promotion of social public welfare, public awareness of AIDS more and more, but there are still some small blind spots. Today (December 1) is the World AIDS Day, one to fill these relatively unpopular with the knowledge of the less popular.

1. AIDS and HIV
In Los Angeles, 1981, HIV was found in the human body. AIDS is "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome". Raise AIDS, everyone will think of HIV. However, HIV infection does not equal to suffering from AIDS (AIDS).
HIV infection is the body of people with HIV virus, the virus will attack immune cells, when the HIV-infected cd4<200, it developed into AIDS (The Observer network Note: CD4 cell is an important immune cell in the human immune system). HIV-infected people after several years or longer incubation period will develop into AIDS patients, but also some never developed for AIDS.

AIDS is a cd4<200 infection.
So suspected HIV infection, to check early, it is best to go two more times. Because although laboratory examination can find in the incubation period of HIV carriers, but the premise is to avoid window period (from HIV infection to the human body to produce antibodies need 2-6 weeks, this time is the window period). If checked at this time period, it is possible to find nothing, but the virus has been quietly settled in the body.

AIDS Confirmation Laboratory
2. Can aids be cured?
Many people do not cure the first reaction, indeed, the current HIV vaccine has not been successfully developed. So far, only one patient infected with HIV has been successfully cured, he is the "case of Berlin" Timothy Rey Brown (Timothy Ray Brown). But no one knows for sure which treatment for Brown cured his illness.

Timothy Rey Brown
The first HIV-infected baby was cured in 2013, and unfortunately, in July 2014, the Mississippi baby reproduced the HIV virus, and in the recent second, the "Cured" AIDS baby also showed signs of HIV infection.
The only cured "patient in Berlin" Brown, who received treatment for leukemia in Germany in 2007, was wiped out after the HIV virus. In treating leukemia, Brown first underwent radiotherapy to kill cancer cells and stem cells that produced cancer cells in the bone marrow, then underwent a transplant from a healthy donor's bone marrow to produce new blood cells.
After treatment, Brown not only leukemia cured, his HIV virus level also dropped to detect the level, and this situation has continued.
3. AIDS life can be the same as normal people
AIDS is currently not cured, that disease can only wait to die? No, aids people can live like normal life.
Because of the role of drugs, although AIDS has never been cured, but has gradually become a chronic disease, like gastric ulcer, diabetes. Therefore, AIDS is no longer a demonized death notice, nor need isolation treatment. Including China disease Prevention and Control Center STD AIDS Prevention and control center Director Wu Chun friends, including a lot of experts have mentioned that AIDS patients adhere to antiviral treatment, may live to life expectancy. Of course, commonly used AIDS drugs will have a lot of side effects, can cause a variety of health problems.
4. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV can be almost entirely avoided
Transmission of AIDS: sexual transmission, blood transmission, mother-to-child transmission. HIV-infected mothers, if they do not take any measures, the probability of natural transmission to children between 40%-50%. And if the implementation of the comprehensive blocking method after the birth of AIDS mothers, the chance of HIV infection can be reduced to 2%-3%.
As early as 2011, 56% HIV-infected pregnant women received the WHO-recommended drug treatment to most effectively prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. A few days ago, November 4 scientists released the results of the study, identified to block HIV and mother-to-child transmission of the best treatment program.