Interesting+facts+about+AIDS

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 * AIDS stands for //Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome//.
 * The immune system of a person with AIDS has weakened to the point that medical intervention may be necessary to prevent or treat serious illness.
 * A blood test can determine if a person is infected with HIV, but if a person tests positive for HIV, it does not exactly mean that the person has AIDS.
 * Having HIV does not [[image:Aids_In_Asia_0001--12-08-04-IMG_2073ci_copy-2.jpg width="205" height="137" align="left"]] mean that you will get AID[[image:hivbud2_small.jpg width="181" height="175" align="right"]]S
 * AIDS is produced from sexual contact.
 * AIDS can be transmitted by breast milk.
 * AIDS Is not likely to be transmitted be hugging unless there are open sores with blood and puss.
 * Most people nowadays get infected between the age of 13 and 20.
 * Some treatment does not work on some people and symptoms occur that normally don't take place with most people.
 * People who have been infected by AIDS they normally get sick easily because their immune system has been infected.
 * About 700,000 - 900,000 Americans are infected at this moment being. This is a picture of the HIV virus budding from the cell.
 * HIV and AIDS killed over 3,000,000, and every year the deaths get higher.
 * AIDS and HIV infects 8,200 people per day.
 * Air kills the virus.
 * A drop of infected blood in the air can kill the virus in less then 45 seconds.
 * 20,000 Canadians are infected with the virus and don't know it.
 * 35,000 Americans are infected with the virus and don't know it.
 * Every hour two Americans between the age of 13 and 24 are infected with HIV.

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http://reference.aol.com/fast-facts/science/_a/aids-the-history-and-geography-of-a/2006060213560999000

http://www.hivaidssearch.com/facts/hiv_aids_factual_statistics.htm

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