which destroys the immune system, preventing the body from protecting itself

against infection and disease. One infected with AIDS becomes vulnerable to

infections harmless in healthy people, but fatal to those with weakened immune

systems. A cure for AIDS has yet to be found, although drugs that may expand

one's life span and improve one's infection are available.

AIDS is caused by HIV, human immunodificiency virus, however, one

infected with HIV is not always infected with AIDS. Individuals who have HIV

sometimes do not develop a clinical illness of AIDS for ten years or more. The

term AIDS is not often used by physicians until the patient has reached the final

In 1981 in California and New York, AIDS was found in homosexual men

and drug users. AIDS grew among heterosexual men, women and children in

Sub-Saharan Africa not long after its identification in the United States.

Approximately thirty-five million adults and two million children were infected

with HIV or AIDS by the year 2000. From 1981 to 2000, an estimated twenty-

two million people died by the infection of AIDS; more than

Antiretroviral drugs produce an increase in blood fat levels and increase one's

HIV. In 1982, the first case of AIDS was detected. By the late 1980s, Uganda

concentrating in organs of the lymphatic sustem.

infection and determine how far it has progressed. Other tests screen donated

twenty-five percent of blood transfusions are screened.

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