HIV is no more a Death Sentence

AIDS was firstly found in the years of 1980's. During that time in united states, many of gay person come to the clinic with some disease and showing symptoms of immunodeficiency syndrome. They cant resist even for simple infection by bacterial and their immune systems are like totally down. The prevalence are quit high among the gay partners in united states. At the same time, some symptoms were found among the injected drug user in other placed. Later these symptoms named as AIDS(Acquired  Immuno Deficiency Syndrome).

AIDS is known to be caused mostly by the HIV virus, but not all patient with AIDS having HIV virus infection. The immuno deficiency syndrome also can be caused by other disease and also some medication,but these type of immunodeficiency, medical professional did not put under the AIDS terms as exclusively for HIV patient.

HIV virus is a retrovirus known to attack the CD4+ cell. CD4+ cell is the T cell that responsible for protecting human body from any infection. When infected by the HIV virus our body will try to compensate with the infection by increasing the number of CD4+, but as the infection going chronic our body no more can compensate as the number of viral replication increase with the increase of CD4+. That is why at the early phase of infection, the infected person appear normally with no symptoms develop and this phase is called window period. As the infection progress our CD4+ will decrease and our immune system worsen by the times.

When the CD4 decreased until less than 200 this phase called AIDS, where the immune system is totally weaken and our body prone to any kind of infections. In this phase usually the infected person will die due to opportunistic infection but not by the HIV virus. Most common disease killing HIV person during this phase are TB and P. carinii Pneumonia where its rarely happens in normal person.

As medical field improved by times, 20 years ago a drug called Anti-RetroViral (ARV) created to stops the replication of HIV virus. This drugs give new hopes for HIV infected person as evidences showed that person used this drug since it introduced into the market still alive but on ARV pills and  living with the HIV virus for about 20 years.

And for now a treatment course called HAART (highly active anti-retroviral treatment) developed for HIV patients and giving a better future for HIV infected person with evidence on literature showing a positive hopes. Thus, HIV is now treatable and just a chronic disease like diabetes where u can treat and control it but the disease cant be cure. If the patient really comply to the medicines they can prevent gets any infection and can live for years. HIV is no more a death sentence for infected person as the disease is now controllable but the things that killing HIV infected person nowadays is the stigma by the public. This stigmatized view we have to change as to achieve better future for everyone.






p/s: i tried to work on my thesis on parasito but this thing come out from my head..sigh