Archive for the Category: About HIV and AIDS
What do HIV and AIDS stand for?
If you are someone that is very much interested in getting a medicine related career, then you will certainly need to know more about the domain that you will dip into. As such, I bet that you have wondered before, just What does HIV stand for? You should know that HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency [...]
HIV Blood Test
Taking a HIV blood test is the only way to tell if a person has HIV. HIV/AIDS symptoms are not specific, so this is the only way to get definitive diagnose. The most common type of test that is used today is an HIV antibody test. Antibodies represent the body’s response to an infection. If [...]
What Are Visible Signs That a Person Has AIDS?
When a person is infected with HIV, several years may pass by without any visible symptoms. Even when they occur, symptoms are similar to many other harmless diseases, so they can stay undetected. However, when the disease enters its final phase, there are visible symptoms. The symptoms of AIDS are primarily the result of opportunistic [...]