Abstract

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AND AQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME

Devkar Nilesh Balkrishna*, Jejurkar Tejas Anil* and Sudrik Shivam Bhausaheb*

ABSTRACT

AIDS is caused by a chronic infection with the Human immunodeficiency virus. The official start of the epidemic occurred in the summer in 1981 when the US Centres for a Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported on a cluster of the Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in five homosexuals for men.[1] However, there is substantial evidence that HIV first crossed in the simian-human species barrier much earlier, possibly in Cameroon in the West Africa.[2] There is also evidence that the HIV found its way to the Caribbean and before the 1980s.[3] From 1981, appro. 1.7 million people has been infected with HIV in the United States, _550,000 have subsequently died also, and 1.2 million are currently living with disease HIV/AIDS.[4] Despite improved the HIV medications and lower morbidity and the death rates in the past decades, there is still great variables in the HIV disease progression.[5] This article will briefly review and provide an overview to the phases of disease progression, the HIV is the prevalent and genetic diversity to HIV, on the basic biological nature of the virus (e.g., the life cycle of virus), the mode of HIV transmission, HIV testing for detection of virus, immune response to words the infection, and the current medical strategies.

Keywords: HIV/AIDS, HIV attitudes, Religion, stigma, CDC.