AIDS is abbreviation for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. A result of human immune-deficiency-virus (HIV) that makes the immune system less able to fight infection. The time between infection to becoming symptomatic with a disease is called incubation period. The incubation period is long as eleven years. The cause of that is in all cases pneumonia cancer or infection with bacteria and viruses.

The chart represents primary routes of transmission of the AIDS virus. The largest single group is still male to male sexual contact (at 53%), the second largest transmissi

No effective cure has been found yet, but life expectancy is getting higher. The only safe protection is the use of condom. In Slovenia we have over 200 known cases of HIV positive persons, but this number will double in two years time.

on groups are those who use injected drugs (25%), male to female sexual contact (7%), transfusion with blood products (2%) and unknown risk (6%).

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