HIV And AIDS Latest News
AIDS is one of the deadliest diseases in human history. The disease caused due to human immunodeficiency virus has affected a large percentage of population around the world. As per estimates, 40 million people around the world are affected with this disease. The disease has claimed 25 millions lives worldwide. Due to severity of this disease, latest news on HIV and AIDS are found almost all the newspapers. The disease has claimed a large number of victims in Africa and other parts of the world. Even united state known for its medical advancement has nearly 1 million affected people. WHO and government bodies of different countries keep updating the people on how to save you from this dangerous disease.
Here we are giving some facts and figures regarding HIV and AIDS. In most of the cases heterosexual intercourse is source of infection. In some cases homosexual intercourses and intravenous injections are also culprit. A sizable number of those affected are women. A child can also get the disease during birth if her mother is infected. But the number of kids getting birth with HIV has reduced substantially due to development in diagnostic facilities.
Here we would like to discuss mode of spread of AIDS. HIV infections spread through sexual intercourse with an infected person. The virus can enter through the sexual organs of male and female. The disease is very common among the drugs addicts as they often use a contaminated syringe to inject the drugs. A mother can also transmit the disease to her newborn during pregnancy or birth. In certain circumstances it may spread through transfusion with contaminated blood. People suffering from sexually transmitted disease like genital herpes, gonorrhea or syphilis are high at risk. Those involved with more than one sexual partner are also likely to get this deadly disease. There is no cure for the disease but one can fight this disease with available medication and healthy lifestyle.
