Shana Whitten by Elizabeth Whitten https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4 HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus en-us 2021-07-18 18:42:42 UTC 2024-12-08 15:03:14 UTC hello@padlet.com Symptoms vary on the stage of infection. sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653898018 Stage 1 (Acute HIV)
-low grade fever
-headache
-malaise 
-rash
-swollen or abnormal lymph nodes 

Stage 2 ( Asymptomatic Infection)
-This stage shows no symptoms and remains controlled until stage 3.

Stage 3 (Symptomatic Infection)
-fatigue, fever, weight loss, chronic diarrhea, swollen lymph nodes, muscle aches and join pain, sore throat, skin rashes and bumps, headaches

Stage 4 (Aids)
- Major opportunistic infections and cancers may develop 

]]> 2021-07-18 23:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653898018 sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653902297 -use condoms during sexual intercourse
-always use sterile needles 
- avoid sharing razors
- watch out for blood stain needles or metal objects ]]> 2021-07-18 23:38:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653902297 Can be transmitted through multiple ways. sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653903508 - through sexual contact
- through blood contact or from mother to child 
- child birth or breast feeding
-un protected sex with an infected person
- sex with multiple partners ]]> 2021-07-18 23:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653903508 Infections/Cancer Types sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653908166 -Tuberculosis (TB)
-candidasis
-taxoplasmosis
- Kaposi's Sarcoma
- Lymphomas ]]> 2021-07-18 23:47:03 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653908166 Currently there is no cure for HIV/ AIDS but there are ways of treating it. sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653912264 These medications are called antiretroviral therapy (ART), everyone with HIV should be started on ART.
ART is usually a combination of 3 or more medications from several different drug classes. This has the best chance of lowering the amount of HIV in the blood.
Treatment involves combinations of drugs from different classes to:
- account for individual drug resistance (viral genotype)
- avoid creating new drug resistant strains of HIV
- maximize suppression of virus of virus in the blood]]> 2021-07-18 23:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653912264 sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653920246 2021-07-19 00:00:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653920246 sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653920991 2021-07-19 00:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653920991 sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653922399 2021-07-19 00:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653922399 sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653922741 2021-07-19 00:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653922741 sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653923433 2021-07-19 00:03:47 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653923433 sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653930905 2021-07-19 00:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653930905 sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653931499 2021-07-19 00:11:00 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653931499 sewhitten02 https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653931972 2021-07-19 00:11:23 UTC https://padlet.com/sewhitten02/vqprb1kbiozc14r4/wish/1653931972