FRHD 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Treatment As Prevention, Immunoglobulin M, Condom
14 Mar 2018
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Viral load: amount of virus in your blood, measured in number of copies per cubed ml. Is undetectable transmittable?: world guidelines for starting medications based on vl. If you have hiv and you take your medication every day and use a condom, you do not have to disclose your status. Acute hiv infection-seroconversion symptoms: fever, muscle/joint aches, swollen glands, sore throat, rash, nausea /vomiting/diarrhea, headache, enlarged liver/spleen, tingling/pain fingers/toes, ulcers: oral/genital. It may be slightly pruritic (itchy) but usually is not demarcated. In canada, aids is a diagnosis given to people who have hiv and who have one or more opportunistic infections: aids is the most serious stage of hiv infection. The immune system can become too weak to fight off serious, life-threatening infections. Which body fluids transmit hiv: blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, other body fluids containing blood, fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord, fluid surrounding bone joints, fluid surrounding an unborn baby.
