What is HIV/AIDS? Natural Herbal Cure
You may think that HIV and AIDS are one and the same because they are often talked about in one breath, but that is wrong! Although they are linked, HIV and AIDS are two completely different things, and it’s important to know the difference:
HIV is a virus that infects humans. It attacks your immune system causing it to malfunction and makes you very ill. HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus, the virus that causes AIDS.
AIDS is a serious medical condition comprising of a variety of diseases that occur because HIV interferes with your body’s ability to fight off other infections. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
How HIV affects your body
A virus is a small infectious organism that can only replicate inside living cells of other organisms; in HIV’s case, human immune cells. In order to understand how HIV and AIDS are connected we need to take a closer look at how the immune system works. Your immune system is a complex network of organs, tissues and cells, called white blood cells. The white blood cells are made in the bone marrow, migrate to other parts of the immune system such as the lymph nodes, spleen, and thymus and float around in the bloodstream. The components of your immune system work together to prevent germs from entering, growing and multiplying inside your body.
Your skin is the first line of defense against germs and is a very effective barrier to infection. However, when bacteria, viruses or other germs get past your skin; for example, through a wound, or via your mucous membranes (the soft, moist areas just inside of your nose, mouth, rectum, vagina, or penis), they can enter your bloodstream. If this happens, your white blood cells recognize them as foreign and trigger your immune system to launch a multi-pronged attack that generally eliminates the invaders and prevents a wide scale infection.
Different types of white blood cells are responsible for eliminating different kinds of microorganisms. The group of white blood cells responsible for eliminating viruses and tumor cells are called lymphocytes. There are several different types of lymphocytes, all with different jobs. The ones that are especially relevant to HIV infection are the CD4 lymphocytes or CD4 cells. These cells are a bit like policemen, as they patrol the bloodstream and identify any viruses or tumor cells that shouldn’t be there. If they find something they don’t like the look of, they send out signals that activate other lymphocytes including a group of killer lymphocytes which, as their name suggests, seek out and eliminate the invaders.
The reason why HIV causes so much trouble when it gets inside your body is because it targets CD4 cells, infects them, multiplies, and fills them with hundreds of new viruses. The new viruses can bud off from the infected cells, but eventually there are so many that the cells burst and die. When this happens, the newly formed viruses are released into the bloodstream where they can infect other uninfected CD4 cells.
Over time, HIV infection causes a massive drop in the total number of CD4 cells from about 1000 cells per microlitre of blood to less than 200 per microlitre, resulting in immunodeficiency. At this point, your immune system is so weak it can no longer fight off other germs when they enter your body, making you extremely susceptible to infections and cancers that would not usually occur. The onset of these opportunistic infections is the beginning of what we call AIDS.
How is HIV diagnosed?
You only know for sure that you have HIV if you get tested. The most common HIV test is a blood test. Your doctor will take a small sample and send it off to a laboratory for analysis, and you usually get the result within a few days. Some clinics offer point-of-care tests. All you need to do for this is give a small sample of saliva, or a spot of blood from a pin prick, and you get the result there and then. Both of these types of test detect whether or not you have HIV antibodies. The downside is that it generally takes a few weeks for your immune system to start producing HIV antibodies after you first got infected, and occasionally up to 6 months. This means, you can test HIV negative, but may in fact be HIV positive. There are other diagnostic tests that can detect the presence of HIV earlier, including the HIV p24 antigen test and the nucleic acid amplification test, but they are not used extensively at this time
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What are the symptoms of HIV/AIDS?
If you are infected with HIV and have not taken any HIV treatment or cure you can expect three stages of illness as the infection progresses:
Timeline of the progression of an HIV infection
Acute infection occurs shortly after HIV first enters your body. HIV infects your CD4 cells and rapidly multiplies. Within a week or two, the infection takes hold and signs and symptoms of fever, headache, fatigue, and swollen lymph glands make many people feel like they are getting the flu. At this time, your immune system is operating at full throttle, aggressively fighting the infection, and typically, after a few weeks, the flu-like symptoms will pass and you will start producing HIV antibodies.
Clinical latency as its name suggests, is generally a time without symptoms. During this stage, your immune system and HIV have come into balance and the infection is partially controlled. However, HIV continues to slowly multiply and as time passes it steadily kills off your CD4 cells making you increasingly immunodeficient. A key point here is that during this time most people with HIV don’t look or feel sick, and may not even know that they are infected.
AIDS starts when your immune system has become so weak it can no longer protect you from infection by other organisms and diseases. You may experience any or all of the following symptoms: rapid weight loss, night sweats, extreme fatigue, swollen lymph glands, chronic diarrhea, sores in your mouth, anus or genitals, pneumonia, brown or purplish lesions on your skin or in your mouth, memory loss and depression.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have published a list of over 20 AIDS-defining diseases that may occur in the later stages of HIV infection, and that are used worldwide to diagnose AIDS for surveillance purposes. According to the CDC definition, if you are infected with HIV, you are considered to have AIDS if your doctor has diagnosed you with any one of the listed AIDS-defining diseases.^2
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start superscript, 2, end superscript Alternatively, your doctor can diagnose you with AIDS based on your CD4 cell count - it doesn’t apply to young children or babies, but if you are 6 years or older, you have AIDS if your CD4 cell count is less than 200 cells per microlitre, or if your CD4 cells are less than 14% of you total lymphocytes.
start superscript, 2, end superscript Your susceptibility to AIDS-defining diseases is generally related to your CD4 cell count, which typically start when your CD4 cell count has dropped to around 500 cells per microlitre of blood.
Some of the most common AIDS-defining diseases that may cause AIDS symptoms are shown in the table below.
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CD4 cells per microliter of blood AIDS-defining diseases
Around 500 Fungal infections (Candida): The first opportunistic infections that you are likely to get if you have HIV are minor fungal infections caused by an overgrowth of Candida, the fungus that causes diaper rash in babies. Candida infections commonly occur in the mouth and throat (oral candidiasis or thrush), airways and lungs, or vagina (vaginal candidiasis). This fungus typically forms white patches on your gums, tongue and lining of your mouth, and can make it so painful to swallow that you lose your appetite. An infection in your vagina will cause itching or burning, and soreness and redness accompanied by a thick white discharge.
500 to 200 Kaposi’s sarcoma: Kaposi’s sarcoma is a tumour caused by a human herpes virus. The tumour usually appears as purplish lesions on the skin of your legs or face, or inside your mouth, and can spread to other parts of your body without you knowing it. If the cancer spreads to your guts or lungs, it can cause bleeding or difficulty with breathing that can be life threatening.
200 to 100 Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia: Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia is a type of pneumonia that severely affects the lungs and is the most common opportunistic infection in people with AIDS. Signs and symptoms of pneumocystis can include shortness of breath, fever, dry cough and chest pain. It usually takes weeks or months to develop, but can be life threatening if not treated.
100 to 50 Cytomegalovirus: Cytomegalovirus is everywhere and it is thought that most people throughout the world have been exposed to it, but mostly didn’t notice. Nevertheless; like HIV, once you have the virus you have it for life. If you are HIV infected and have low CD4 cell counts, you should not be surprised if you get a cytomegalovirus infection in your gut, or your eyes (cytomegalovirus retinitis), where it may lead to blindness if you don’t get treatment or cure.
less than 50 Mycobacterium avium complex: Mycobacterium avium complex exists everywhere in the environment and can infect the lungs and intestines of people with severe immunodeficiency. It can be deadly if it spreads to other parts of your body.
How do you get HIV?
The most common way to get HIV is by having sex with an HIV infected person.
HIV spreads from one person to another when certain body fluids (blood, semen, vaginal secretions, rectal fluids, and breast milk) from an HIV infected person come into contact with a mucous membrane in the nose, mouth, rectum, vagina, or penis of an uninfected person. Vaginal, anal, and oral sex all set the scene for HIV to spread from one person to another.
The 2nd most common way to get HIV is by injecting HIV directly into your body.
100 to 50 Cytomegalovirus: Cytomegalovirus is everywhere and it is thought that most people throughout the world have been exposed to it, but mostly didn’t notice. Nevertheless; like HIV, once you have the virus you have it for life. If you are HIV infected and have low CD4 cell counts, you should not be surprised if you get a cytomegalovirus infection in your gut, or your eyes (cytomegalovirus retinitis), where it may lead to blindness if you don’t get treatmen.
It is worth knowing that HIV is not highly contagious, meaning it does not spread from one person to another very easily. It is not spread through the air, and because it does not live for long outside the human body you cannot get it simply by being around an HIV infected person. It is not spread through touching, hugging, sneezing or coughing, or by eating or drinking from common utensils. It is not spread by water, saliva, tears or sweat, or by using a drinking fountain or sitting on a toilet seat, and it is not spread by insects including mosquitoes or ticks.
How likely are you to get HIV?
Around 35 million people are currently living with HIV worldwide. About half of these are women and over 3 million are children.^4
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start superscript, 4, end superscript Every day 6,000 people become infected with HIV, which means over 2 million people are newly infected every year.^4
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World map showing the prevalence of HIV/AIDS
Your chances of getting HIV depend on many factors. Although not always the case, it can happen the very first time you have sex with someone who is infected, or the first time you inject drugs with a contaminated needle. There are situations that increase the chances that it will happen to you, including:
If your HIV infected sexual partner has another sexually transmitted disease such as herpes, hepatitis or tuberculosis.
If your HIV infected sexual partner has particularly large numbers of HIV circulating in their bloodstream (a high viral load).
If you frequently have unprotected sex with a partner you know is infected.
If you frequently have unprotected anal or vaginal sex with multiple partners when you are unsure as to whether or not they have HIV infection.
How to avoid getting infected with HIV
To avoid getting HIV, you must prevent any contaminated body fluids from entering your body through your nose or mouth, vagina, anus, penis, or breaks in your skin. This can be done by practicing safe sex and safe drug use, which means:
always use a condom
get tested regularly - this is a must if you are having sex with someone you know has HIV, or if you are worried you might have been exposed to HIV, and
never share intravenous needles, syringes, cookers, cotton, cocaine spoons, or eye droppers if you use drugs.
There are other ways you can catch HIV, although it very rarely happens. It is possible to become infected through a needle stick injury or blood transfusion, or by getting bitten by an HIV infected person. HIV can also be passed on from an infected mother to a baby during pregnancy, labour and birth, or via breast milk, but with proper medical treatment during pregnancy this is also rare.
How do you treat HIV/AIDS?
Herbal medicine is the best method to cure HIV permanently, Herbal medicine are made from plant which is very rich, plants discovered by our forefather....Antiretroviral therapy (ART) work by preventing HIV from multiplying, which lowers the amount of virus in your bloodstream (viral load). Although the medicine does not get rid of HIV entirely, it gives your CD4 cells a chance to recover so that they can fight off opportunistic infections and cancers. If you don’t take Herbal cure or ART, you are likely to die within 12 years from the time you first got infected. On the other hand, if you do take ART, you can have a life expectancy equal to or even higher than the general population.
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