I am 25 year old and I want to know about the symptoms of AIDS and I also want to know about the precautions that can be taken against it.

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Hello, The HIV infection is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus .
After HIV is in the body, it starts to destroy CD4+ cells, which are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease.
HIV is spread when blood, semen, or vaginal fluids from an infected person enter another person's body, usually through sexual contact, from sharing needles when injecting drugs, or from mother to baby during birth.
 Most people who have become recently infected with HIV will not have any symptoms. They may, however, have a flu-like illness within a month or two after exposure to the virus, with fever, headache, tiredness, and enlarged lymph nodes (glands of the immune system easily felt in the neck and groin). These symptoms usually disappear within a week to a month and are often mistaken for those of other viral infections. During this period, people are very infectious, and HIV is present in large quantities in blood, semen, and vaginal fluids.
 More severe HIV symptoms?such as profound and unexplained fatigue, rapid weight loss, frequent fevers, or profuse night sweats?may not appear for 10 years or more after HIV first enters the body in adults, or within two years in children born with HIV infection.
   Prevention:- Because there is no cure or vaccine to prevent HIV, the only way people can prevent infection from the virus is to avoid high-risk behaviours putting them at risk of infection, such as having unprotected sex or sharing needles.

Princy Khandelwal · Accepted Answer

Hello, The HIV infection is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus .
After HIV is in the body, it starts to destroy CD4+ cells, which are white blood cells that help the body fight infection and disease.
HIV is spread when blood, semen, or vaginal fluids from an infected person enter another person's body, usually through sexual contact, from sharing needles when injecting drugs, or from mother to baby during birth.
 Most people who have become recently infected with HIV will not have any symptoms. They may, however, have a flu-like illness within a month or two after exposure to the virus, with fever, headache, tiredness, and enlarged lymph nodes (glands of the immune system easily felt in the neck and groin). These symptoms usually disappear within a week to a month and are often mistaken for those of other viral infections. During this period, people are very infectious, and HIV is present in large quantities in blood, semen, and vaginal fluids.
 More severe HIV symptoms?such as profound and unexplained fatigue, rapid weight loss, frequent fevers, or profuse night sweats?may not appear for 10 years or more after HIV first enters the body in adults, or within two years in children born with HIV infection.
   Prevention:- Because there is no cure or vaccine to prevent HIV, the only way people can prevent infection from the virus is to avoid high-risk behaviours putting them at risk of infection, such as having unprotected sex or sharing needles.