Lecture Notes:

AIDS IN THE UNITED STATES...continued.......

• AIDS is not transmitted--HIV is transmitted.
• You can't transmit a disease, you can only transmit viruses, bacteria.
• AIDS is the final stages of HIV.
• In education, we work to prevent HIV infection.
• Our immune system is made up of skin, mucus membrane, and white blood cells.
• People don't die of AIDS--they die of AIDS related illnesses and opportunistic infections.
• Early symptoms of HIV disease (5-10 years after infection of HIV) include flu symptoms, fever, nightsweat, fatigue, vomiting, and weight loss.
• Eight years is the average length of time it takes for HIV symptoms to appear.
• Ten years after point of infection is when AIDS diagnosis is likely to occur.
• Medical criterion for diagnosis of AIDS is less than 200 T-cells.