Category:AIDS

Category:AIDS — AIDS is the common acronym for the medical term acquired immune deficiency syndrome, which is a follow-on disease of the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV. AIDS will develop as a late-stage health prognosis of a carrier of HIV (often coined 'HIV-positive'), especially if the HIV carrier does not have access to the required anti-retro-viral drugs. Once diagnosed with AIDS, it is usually fatal to life; with sufferers usually dying within a decade of developing AIDS.

If HIV is detected at an early stage, and the required anti-retro-viral drugs are also administered at an early stage, the HIV carrier will often lead a perfectly normal life, and should not develop any of the symptoms of AIDS. Indeed, the latest generation anti-retro-virals suppress the human immunodeficiency virus to a point where it becomes undetectable ('HIV-negative'), and therefore, the carrier is no longer able to pass on the virus to another via the traditionally established methods.

Wikis in this category will have AIDS as their subject matter.