5 Facts You Need to Know About AIDS

Today is World AIDS Day!!!

To celebrate this, the following are 5 important Facts you need to know about AIDS! 

READY? LET'S GO!! 

√ DO YOU KNOW? (FACT 1) 

AIDS is an abbreviation for 'Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome'.

It is a disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections such as; pneumocystis carinii, pneumonia and candidiasis, certain cancers— as Kaposi's sarcoma, and neurological disorders.

Aids is caused by a retrovirus (HIV) and it's transmitted chiefly through the blood or blood products that go into the body's bloodstream, especially by sexual contact or contaminated hypodermic needles.

 ✓ DO YOU KNOW? (FACT 2 )

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was first recognized as a new disease in 1981 in the United States when increasing numbers of young homosexual men succumbed to unusual opportunistic infections and rare malignancies.

 √ DO YOU KNOW? (FACT 3)

ZIDOVUDINE, a medicine commonly known as AZT, was introduced in 1987 as the first treatment for HIV.

✓ DO YOU KNOW? (FACT 4)

HIV does NOT get transferred through Skin-to-skin contact, hugging, shaking hands, or water sharing, food or drinks, saliva, tears, or sweat(unless mixed with the blood of a person with HIV), sharing a toilet, towels, beddings, mosquito bites, other insects. 

 ✓ DO YOU KNOW? (FACT 5)

DISCRIMINATION KILLS FASTER THAN THE DISEASE ITSELF. 

So, never discriminate! Love and Help people living with Aids. 

And to those living with AIDS, YOU ARE STRONGER THAN YOU THINK. DON'T FORGET TO STICK TO YOUR TREATMENT PLAN. YOU ARE NOT LESSER THAN A HUMAN.

HAPPY WORLD'S AIDS DAY!