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Without drugs, HIV converts to AIDS in about 10 to 15 years. Nowadays there are much better and more effective drugs, so people with access to these drugs are living a lot longer.
Of course, millions of people in poorer countries cannot afford these drugs and so continue to die from AIDS.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 13y agoIts an individual process. It really depends on healthy you werer when you were first diagnosed with HIV. The only way to know for sure for YOU is to see a dr. This is a TREATABLE (note: treatable refers to delaying the inevitable. treatment for AIDS will NOT, repeat NOT CURE IT) terminal illness. UNLIKE in the '80s, HIV is not an IMMEDIATE death sentence anymore. You have choices and options and there are alot of medications out there that can prolong the developement of AIDS for years, if not decades or longer. Dont be a fool, call a doctor, use a condom, abstain from sex.
Note: AIDS is not curable, but its development can be delayed
Also: a lot of the drugs used to prevent AIDS can have adverse affects on other organs.
HIV/AIDS will still wind up with you dying, it is incurable. The only way not to die from it is if you were dying from something else before, or you die from physical injury or something.
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How long does hiv live outside the body in saliva?
it takes 30 litres but if your ZOE KOCH it takes only 1 litre cause she has HIV AIDS
How long does it takes to have hiv virus in the breast milk of infrcted mother?
Breastfeeding is not allowed if the mother has HIV. Aids has no cure,so strict no breastfeeding is allowed lifetime.
Why HIV aids is a slow onset disaster?
Because it takes years for HIV (when you're contagious, but not particularly sick) to develop into AIDS, where you are sick and eventually die.
If left untreated how long can a person with HIV AIDS live?
Without drugs, HIV usually converts to AIDS in about 10 to 15 years.
What is the importance of epidemiology in HIV AIDS?
The importance of studing hiv and aids The importance of studing hiv and aids
Are there vaccinations for HIV or AIDS?
There are no vaccinations for HIV or AIDS.
Who can get HIV AIDS?
anybody can get HIV and then move on to aids.
Can you get aids from a person who does not have aids?
No No, to get AIDS you must have physical contact with another person who has AIDS. You cannot get AIDS if you did not have physical contact with another person who has AIDS. Hope this helped !
How is aids and HIV different?
HIV is an early form of aids. Every one who has AIDS had HIV at one point.
Is it true that if you are infected with AIDS then you have HIV?
Correct...HIV can lead to AIDS and AIDS can only be caused be the HIV virus.
What diseases cause AIDS?
AIDS is caused by one thing: long term infection with HIV.
What is the difference between having HIV and Aids?
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. Hence, HIV in the virus and AIDS is the disease that results from the virus.
