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AIDS

(Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)


Does anybody have an intimate relationship? Has anyone of you ever thought about AIDS before having sex without protection? AIDS is a word, which meant punishment for all those who didn’t obey certain rules of normal sexual behavior. But today it means punishment for those who are having sexual intercourse without protection.

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.

Routes of transmission

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 transmission groups are...

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