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You know the dangers of HIV / AIDS

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that menginfeksi cells from the human immune system and destroy its function. At the first stage of the infection, people have no symptoms. However, after the infection progresses, the body's immune system becomes weak, and people become more vulnerable to a so-called oportunistik infection.

Stage of HIV infection is most dangerous is positive with Acquired Immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). This can take 10-15 years for people infected with HIV-AIDS to develop; can not use the slow development of this virus.

HIV is transmitted through unprotected sexual contact (anal or vaginal), transfusion of infected blood, sharing contaminated needles, and between the mother and the baby during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding.

As many as 33 million people living with HIV (WHO 2007), and new HIV in 2007 increased 2.7 million people died as a result while the HIV / AIDS as much as 2 million people in the world where about 270 thousand people are children under the age of 15 years .. be carefull, Virus is threatening all the time.
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WHO

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