What is HIV?
What does HIV stand for?
Human Immune Deficiency Virus
What does AIDS stand for?
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
What is HIV Stigma?
HIV stigma is negative attitudes and beliefs about people with HIV.
A connective tissue tumor that is a rare complication not often seen anymore.
What is Kaposi sarcoma?
A fungus normally found in the GI tract. It does not cause infection in a person with a healthy immune system. In a person with AIDS, overgrowth of this fungus occurs, commonly affecting the mouth or esophagus.
What is candida albicans?
What are T-cells?
Type of red blood cells that fight disease.
What type of disease is AIDS?
It is a progressive disease.
What is HIV discrimination?
The act of treating people with HIV differently than those without HIV.
Influenza, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, herpes simplex, herpes zoster or varicella zoster.
What are opportunistic viruses, or viruses?
An infection that can be serious. It can cause retinitis, which can result in blindness. Signs and symptoms include fever, fatigue, diarrhea, GI upset, and hepatitis.
What is cytomegalovirus?
HIV is found where?
Blood, saliva and bodily fluid.
When does HIV become AIDS?
When HIV has destroyed all your T-cells.
Give one example of HIV stigma?
-That only one group of people can get HIV
-Making moral judgments about people who take steps to prevent HIV transmission.
-Feeling like people deserve to get HIV because of their choices.
With an impaired immune system created by HIV/AIDS, the incidence of this rises because the abnormal cells are not being destroyed.
What is cancer?
A serious nontuberculous mycobacterial infection. Found in water, foods such as raw or partially cooked fish or shellfish, and soil.
What is Mycobacterium Avium Complex?
What is HIV?
A retrovirus that uses its strand of RNA to encode itself into your DNA.
When can AIDS develop?
Give one example of HIV discrimination.
- A healthcare professional refusing to give care to someone with HIV.
-Refusing contact with someone who has HIV.
-Socially isolating someone because they are HIV positive.
Involuntary loss of more than 10% of baseline body weight plus chronic weakness for more than 30 days.
What is AIDS wasting syndrome?
Caused by the fungus pneumocystis jiroveci in immunocompromised persons. It develops slowly and produces shortness of breath, fever and dry cough.
What is pneumocytis pneumonia?
How is HIV transmitted? (Include all 4)
Corrupt needles
All forms of sexual contact
Transfusion of infected blood
Pre-natal: From mother to baby
Name at least 4 symptoms of AIDS?
Lymphadenopathy: disease of lymph nodes
Lossy of 10% or more of your body weight
Oral candidiasis: infection of the mouth
Kaposi sarcoma – Cancer
Pneumonia
Severe diarrhea
Fatigue
What is Internalized stigma or Self-stigma?
When a person takes in the negative ideas and stereotypes about people with HIV and starts to apply them to themselves.
HIV infection in the brain or other parts of the CNS.
What is an HIV-associated neurocognitive disorder?
A bacterial infection caused by the mycobacterium tuberculosis. Symptoms include dyspnea, cough, chest pain, fever, night sweats, and weight loss.
What is tuberculosis?