HIV/AIDS Will Kill You AIDS in Africa has led to millions of patients dying. The symptoms in men as well as women and children has raised the need for awareness videos to stop this pandemic. Subscribe for new videos: http://goo.gl/SaufF4 Watch the Portuguese man o' war video here: http://goo.gl/eToJGq Watch the sea wasp video here: http://goo.gl/5VhCkT It's killed 39 million people since the start of the epidemic, and it still kills another 1.5 million people every year. In this HIV AIDS educational video, we'll show you what you need to know about this disease. Today's video was produced due to high demand by our subscribers. If you have any other topics you'd like to learn about, be sure to write your suggestions below. What is it? AIDS, or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, is an infection caused by the sexually transmitted HIV virus, or Human Immunodeficiency Virus. AIDS severely damages the immune system, putting its victims at huge risk for opportunistic infections. Today, there are over 35 million people living with HIV/AIDS, over 3 million of which are children who were infected by their mothers at birth. Where is it located? HIV/AIDS is a worldwide pandemic. As seen here, sub-Saharan Africa is the most heavily affected region where it's infected 5% of the adult population and has caused 10% of deaths in children. The second most affected region is Southeast Asia followed by Eastern European countries such as Russia, Ukraine, and Latvia. How will it kill you? Infection with HIV does not always progress to AIDS and thanks to advances in medicine and technology, HIV positive victims may now lead nearly normal life expectancies. But those whose infections have progressed to AIDS will suffer from a progressive failure of the immune system due to lowered white blood cell counts. Death is mainly caused by an inability to fight off opportunistic infections from other diseases, the leading causes being tuberculosis, hepatitis C, and cancer. How to survive: Although there's still no cure, HIV patients starting treatment far in advance can lead close to normal life expectancies. If you suspect yourself of being infected, get an HIV AIDS test done immediately, Both HIV and AIDS patients may take antiretroviral medicines to fight the virus. These antiretroviral meds improve their healths by making their immune systems work better. Problems arise when the virus becomes resistant to the antiretrovirals, at which point new medicines can be prescribed to help fight the disease, prevent HIV replication, and shorten the HIV life cycle . Now what do you think is worse and why? Being stung by a Portuguese man o' war? Or being stung by a sea wasp?

• published: 20 Mar 2015
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