HIV and AIDS

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• List three reasons you think the number of HIV cases in teens is rising.

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HIV and AIDS

What Are HIV and AIDS?

• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that primarily affects cells of the immune system and that causes AIDS.

• Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is the disease that is caused by the HIV virus, which weakens the immune system.

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HIV Around the World

• AIDS is a pandemic, a disease that spreads quickly through human populations all over the world.

• More than 20 million people have died from AIDS since HIV was first discovered around 20 years ago.

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HIV and AIDS

What Are HIV and AIDS?

• People with AIDS cannot fight off illnesses that a healthy immune system could normally defeat.

• It usually takes 5 to 10 years before a person infected with HIV develops AIDS.

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HIV Around the World

• Most scientists think HIV originally came from Africa.• AIDS is the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan

Africa.• HIV is still spreading throughout the world, especially

in Asia and Eastern Europe.

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HIV Origin

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• Many researchers believe that HIV developed in Africa, where certain chimpanzees carry the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV).

• Researchers think that HIV evolved from SIV and that transmission of the virus from chimpanzee to human occurred when chimpanzees were hunted for food.

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HIV Around the World

• 850,000 to 900,000 people are currently living with HIV infection in the United States.

• Over 300,000 people are currently living with AIDS in the United States.

• Each year, 40,000 more people are infected with HIV in the United States.

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Teens and HIV

• Teens are one of the fastest-growing groups to become infected with HIV.

• Over 10,000 teens have been diagnosed with HIV in the United States. More than 4,000 of these have developed AIDS.

• HIV is rising in teens because many teens do not take the risks of HIV and AIDS seriously, and engage in high-risk behaviors.

• Any exchange of blood whether from a transfusion, needles or sex puts you at risk from contracting the HIV virus

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