HIV
The disease Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been around for many years. It was mostly brought to America’s attention when basketball player, Magic Johnson, announced that he had the HIV virus. Since then the HIV virus has been greatly publicized and more discoveries to help the disease have been made.HIV has been found to have many signs and symptoms. The seventeen cardinal signs are the ones that doctors use to diagnose HIV. These signs and symptoms are weight loss, anorexia, increasing debility, adverse drug experiences, fevers, rigors, night sweats, headache, change in vision, diplopia, dysphagia, dyspnea, diarrhea, change in mental status, changing lymphadenopathy, oral lesions, and rashes. When HIV becomes AIDS, the signs and symptoms change slightly. These signs and symptoms are flu like illness, lymph nodes become swollen, loss of appetite, weight loss, fever, rashes, night sweats, and fatigue. Memory loss, confusion, and various mental problems are also signs. The disease HIV also has other diseases involved. HIV can either lead to these diseases or can have these diseases attached. These diseases come in four different categories.
o Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia/pulmonary lymphoid hyperplasia complex ages 13 and older. In the cases of adults, 82% were male, 51% of those men had intercourse with another male, and 18% were female. If you categorize the statistics by race, 47% were white, 43% were African Americans, 18% were Hispanics, 1.0% were Asian and American Indians, and 1.0% were Alaskan natives and Pacific Islanders.
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Psychosocial Implications,
People HIV,
Symptoms HIV,
Statistical Demographics,
HIV AIDS,
Morbidity People,
AIDS Combination,
Conclusion HIV,
Opportunistic Diseases,
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signs symptoms,
· category,
· fear,
virus ·,
hiv virus,
· person,
emotion fear,
unexpressed anger,
night sweats,
hiv diseases,
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