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Symptoms of AIDS can include:

Rapid weight loss

Recurring fever or profuse night sweats

Extreme and unexplained tiredness

Prolonged swelling of the lymph glands in the armpits, groin, or neck

Diarrhea that lasts for more than a week

Sores of the mouth, anus, or genitals

Pneumonia

Red, brown, pink, or purplish blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth, nose, or eyelids

Memory loss, depression, and other neurologic disorders

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Flu-like symptoms can include:

Fever

Chills

Rash

Night sweats

Muscle aches

Sore throat

Fatigue

Swollen lymph nodes

Mouth ulcers

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HIV is the virus that leads to AIDS. You have AIDS if your CD4 count drops below 200 or when you have certain infections or cancers.

You can have HIV for years without having AIDS. Being infected with HIV does not mean you have developed AIDS.

people with HIV who start treatment early in their infection, stay on treatment, and have an undetectable viral load can stay healthy and prevent the disease from progressing to AIDS.

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By race/ethnicity, African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos were disproportionately affected by HIV in 2017. African Americans accounted for 43% of new HIV diagnoses and 13% of the population, while Hispanics/Latinos accounted for 26% of new HIV diagnoses and 18% of the population

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It is widely believed that HIV originated in Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo around 1920 when HIV crossed species from chimpanzees to humans. Up until the 1980s, we do not know how many people were infected with HIV or developed AIDS. HIV was unknown and transmission was not accompanied by noticeable signs or symptoms

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Short clip comparing COVID-19 to HIV/AIDS

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COVID-19 vs HIV: How the Epidemics Compare

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 What procedures should health-care workers follow to prevent transmission in health-care settings?

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 What procedures should health-care workers follow to prevent transmission in health-care settings?

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follow universal precautions. Universal precautions are infection-control guidelines developed to protect health workers and their patients from exposure to diseases spread by blood and certain body fluids

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Scientists have traced the origin of HIV back to chimpanzees and simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), an HIV-like virus that attacks the immune system of monkeys and apes.

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A chart of AIDS deaths in the United States from 1998 to 2002.

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In 2010, President Obama created the National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States (NHAS), with its three main objectives being to reduce the annual number of infections, reduce health disparities, and increase access to resources and HIV care.

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The Department of Health and Human services issued grants to 32 HIV "hotspots" in 2019, and Congress earmarked over $291 million for the president's plan in FY2020.

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Although there is no cure for HIV/AIDs there is medication to help reduce the illness/death.

Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors

Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors: this group of medicines also interferes with the replication of HIV by binding to the reverse transcriptase enzyme itself.

Protease inhibitors: protease is a digestive enzyme that is needed in the replication of HIV to generate new virus particles.

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cases of AIDS were documented prior to 1970, available data suggests that the current epidemic started in the mid- to late 1970s. By 1980, HIV may have already spread to five continents (North America, South America, Europe, Africa and Australia). In this period, between 100,000 and 300,000 people could have already been infected

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The AIDs epidemic, caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), found its way to the United States as early as 1960, but was first noticed after doctors discovered clusters of Kaposi's sarcoma and pneumocystis pneumonia in homosexual men in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco in 1981.

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The first cases of what would later become known as AIDS were reported in the United States (U.S.) in June of 1981.

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Today, there are more than 1.2 million people living with HIV in the U.S. and there are more than 35,000 new infections each year.