People with HIV should seek early medical care so they can:
Find out about medicines that fight HIV; and
Receive care for HIV-related conditions.
Treatments that fight HIV help people with HIV live longer, healthier lives.
Often, it is best to start treatment before symptoms appear.
A doctor can do blood tests to find out how much HIV is in [...]
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a person with HIV infection has AIDS when:
The person’s CD4 cell count, a way to measure the strength of the immune system, falls below 200 (a normal CD4 cell count is 500 or higher); OR
the person develops any of the specific serious conditions – also [...]
Shortly after being infected with HIV, some people – but not all people – have flu-like symptoms (fever, muscle aches, feeling tired) that last a few days and then go away.
This is sometimes called seroconversion illness or acute HIV infection.
Most people with HIV have no symptoms for many years. However, even without symptoms, people who [...]
A person of any age, sex, race, ethnic group, religion, economic background, or sexual orientation can get HIV.
Those who are most at risk are;
People who have “unprotected sex” with someone who has HIV. Unprotected sex means vaginal, anal, or oral sex without using a condom.
people who share needles, syringes, or other equipment to inject drugs, [...]
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a virus. You may hear that someone is HIV infected, has HIV infection, or has HIV disease. These are all terms that mean the person has HIV in his or her body and can pass the virus to other people.
HIV attacks the body’s immune system. The immune system protects the [...]
