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ATTENTION! PLEASE READ BEFORE EDITING! Please understand that this article is one of our most vandalized, and vandalism is reverted quickly. Persistent vandals of this page will most likely be blocked. If you wish to try test editing, you may do so in our sandbox located at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sandbox. Thanks! --> Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The illness interferes with the immune system, making people with AIDS much more likely to get infections , including opportunistic infections and tumors that do not affect people with working immune systems. This susceptibility gets worse as the disease continues. HIV is transmitted in many ways, such as: vaginal , oral or anal sex ; blood transfusion ; contaminated hypodermic needles ; and exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy , childbirth , and breastfeeding . It can be transmitted by any contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid that has the virus in it, such as the blood , semen , vaginal fluid , preseminal fluid , or breast milk from an infected person. The virus and disease are often referred to together as HIV/AIDS . The disease is a major health problem in many parts of the world, and is considered a pandemic , a disease outbreak that is not only present over a large area but is actively spreading. In 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that there are 33.4 million people worldwide living with HIV/AIDS, with 2.7 million new HIV infections per year and 2.0 million annual deaths due to AIDS. According to UNAIDS 2009 report, worldwide some 60 million people have been infected since the start of the pandemic, with some 25 million deaths, and 14 million orphaned children in southern Africa alone. Genetic research indicates that HIV originated in west-central Africa during the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. AIDS was first recognized by the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1981 and its cause, HIV, identified in the early 1980s. Although treatments for HIV/AIDS can slow the course of the disease, there is no known cure or HIV vaccine . Antiretroviral treatment reduces both the deaths and new infections from HIV/AIDS, but these drugs are expensive and the medications are not available in all countries. Due to the difficulty in treating HIV infection, preventing infection is a key aim in controlling the AIDS pandemic , with health organizations promoting safe sex and needle-exchange programmes in attempts to slow the spread of the virus.
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A week ago i got bitten by a bug during night sleep. It bite me on the left corner of my left eye. It caused red rashes and swelling in eye. I searched the net and found that this bite is due to "Kissing bug" which...
Hi Doctor, on 25/5/2012, i had protected vaginal sex with my girlfriend for two times. on 15/2/2012, my girlfriend had ECLIA/ Roche Diagnostics test with negative result, also on 28/5/2012 my girlfrien had ECLIA...
hi..i m suffering 4m burning sensation of my penis 4 more then a month and also i feel weakness in my legs every day..i had unprotected sex with a girl..pliz advice
please helpI started my period 11/25/2011 and I did have sex while on my period it ended on 12/3/2011 I had unprotected sex the 1st 2 nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th and 8th now I have been feeling very sick I vomited Thursday and I'm still feeling...
i have used overall g for one month and had period on 28 day in that month,then i left taking it, later on me nd my hubby had unprotected sex on 7th and 17th day with huuby withdrawing before ejaculation... but now...
I am 32 years old and married with a 6 year old kid. me n my husband had unprotected sex on the third day of my period (yesterday). what is the possibility of me getting pregnant? is there any way to avoid pregnancy now?
Hello Doctor, I had single Unprotected Sex exposure between March 28 to March 31st,2012 After that i undergone HIV test Western blot in May 2nd week 2012 and got result as HIV negative. Now I have undergone...
if there is a fetalpole but no cardiac activity in 8th week , is this the sympotom of misscarriage?
Hi, I am age 38, no pregnancies in the past, currently not on hormonal birthcontrol but significant other and I use condoms every time. I'm 10 days late and normally quite regular. The last time we we together, I...
hiv and ocd or is anxiety Hello. I'm always afraid of getting HIV. I don't do drugs nor unprotected sex. but I get scared all the time. I went to the dentist and I can't stop thinking that the tools infected me. HIV experts told me that its...
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User : hello Doctor : Hi Doctor : How can I help you? User : i m 20 yrs old girl.. User : i m having irregular periods for 5 months and having white vaginal discharge off late. User : i recently had sex with my bf on the 25th of...
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User : hello Doctor : hi User : i need help regarding a thrush Doctor : how can i help yu Doctor : ok User : i picked up a thrush cream at the chemist today and i have some questions to ask Doctor : ok User : does it affect my sexual...
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Doctor : hi Doctor : how can i help u? User : hi User : recently i had a sex with a girl Doctor : pl proceed wd the details? Doctor : k Doctor : ur age/profession Doctor : r u there? User : 23 , emploe User : s Doctor : whether un...
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i have a query related to fertility . i got married May 2006. We have not had a kid till now. My wife hasnt conceived yet after 2 and half year of unprotected sexual intercourse .
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ON NOV.26,2010 AND THE CONDOM BURST INSIDE OF ME. MY PERIOD CAME ON NOV.29,2010 AND STAYED ON FOR 4 TO 5 DAYS. ON DEC. 10 2010 I NOTICED SOME LIGHT SPOTTING AND BROWN DISCHARGE WHEN I WIPE.....
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I feel my sexual time is very little.any suggesion that i solve my problem.thnaks hi i m amir and 25 year old .i m fit ,but i feel my sexual time is very little.i need long sexual intercourse plz help me.thnaks
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I have been celibate for 25 years, but would like to begin having sex again. I am in my late 60 s. and have not lost my deisire for sex but was widowed many years ago after my late husband s long serious heath issues.
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HI iam 33 yr old married 5 yr back when i tested my sperms in the report it came as count is 38 million/ml, but after processibility the normal forms is 2%. so is there any chance of increasing this normal forms.Please advise
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how....i can balance my health aft masterbate ? i m in 23...then how i find out my sexual weakness?
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my wife is second month of pregnency.what time we can do sexual intercourse?
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i am am 33 yrs old and i had ivf in MAY... but was negative,i never had the problem of egg growth, but this time i am doing a self folicullar study (with no medicine and no injections )and the growth is very less on 14th 10x8mm.. is it due to the over simulation done for ivf, what should i do now.
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hi, i didnt get my periods for last month plus i didnt see it yet for this month as wel...i took postinor2 on 22nd july the same day wen i had sex after about 4-6 hrs an i took the second tablet around 4:20am in the morning. wen would i see my period???? an is everything ok wit me???
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hi, i didnt get my periods for last month plus i didnt see it yet for this month as wel...i took postinor2 on 22nd july the same day wen i had sex after about 4-6 hrs an i took the second tablet around 4:20am in the morning. wen would i see my period???? an is everything ok wit me???
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