The human immunodeficiency virus causes AIDS, a chronic immune system illness (HIV). HIV wreaks havoc on the immune system and impairs the body’s ability to resist infection and illness. Contact with infected blood, sperm, or vaginal secretions can transfer HIV. Although there is no cure for HIV/AIDS, drugs can manage the infection and slow disease development.

Some infected patients have flu-like symptoms 2 to 4 weeks after contracting the infection. People on HIV drugs may not have any additional symptoms for years. Symptoms like as fever, tiredness, and enlarged lymph nodes might emerge as the virus replicates and kills immune cells. Untreated, HIV often evolves into AIDS in around 8 to 10 years.

How Common It Is

• More than 100,000 instances are reported each year in Nigeria.
• Spreads through sexual contact
• Treatment can be beneficial, but this condition cannot be cured.
• Chronic: can endure for years or be permanent.
• A medical diagnosis is required.
• Always require lab testing or imaging

How It Spreads

• Using blood products (unclean needles or unscreened blood).
• By engaging in naked vaginal, anal, or oral sex.
• Mother to a child via pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding.

You need a medical diagnosis. Some HIV patients have flu-like symptoms 2 to 4 weeks after contracting the infection. People on the right drugs may not have any additional symptoms for years.

Symptoms

Symptoms like as fever, tiredness, and enlarged lymph nodes might emerge as the virus replicates and kills immune cells. Untreated, HIV often evolves into AIDS in around 8 to 10 years.

Other symptoms include any of the following;

• Areas of pain: abdominal
  Pain situations might develop during swallowing.
• Cough: it may be dry.
  Fatigue, fever, lack of appetite, malaise, nocturnal sweats, or sweating throughout the body
• Gastrointestinal: nausea, constipation, vomiting, or watery diarrhea
• Throat: swallowing difficulties or pain
• Sores or swelling in the groin
• Ulcers or a white tongue in the mouth
• Opportunistic infections like headache, oral thrush, pneumonia, red blotches, skin rash, enlarged lymph nodes, or wasting are also prevalent.

Antivirals Treatment

Although there is no cure for HIV/AIDS, drugs can manage the virus and prevent disease development. With therapy, most persons with HIV in the U.S. don’t acquire AIDS.