Understanding HIV/AIDS

Course overview

In Understanding HIV/AIDS we discuss the definition of HIV, its signs and symptoms, the first stage of acute infection, the second stage of clinical latency, the third stage of AIDS, opportunistic infections, methods of transmission for HIV, sexual transmission, viral load of an infection person, body fluids transmission, drug injections, blood transfusions, mother to child transmission, virology of HIV, genus lentivirus, CD4* T cells, the two types of HIV: HIV-1, HIV-2, pathophysiology of HIV, viral replication, diagnosis of HIV, HIV testing, PCR testing, WHO disease staging system for HIV infection and disease, CDC classification system for HIV infection, prevention of HIV, use of condoms, circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa, sexual abstinence, pre-exposure prophylaxis, post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), bottle feeding as opposed to breast feeding for HIV positive mothers, treatment for HIV, highly active antiretroviral therapy (ART), tuberculosis in HIV patients, diet for HIV patients, vitamin A, risk for diabetes, and prognosis for HIV.