How do you get rid of AIDS?

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As of yet, no cure has been found for HIV/AIDS, it's come to a point where it can be managed for longer periods of time than in previous years, but is still incurable. As noted earlier, it does, eventually lead to a premature end, but technically, one doesn't die from AIDS, as such. AIDS ends up weakening the immune system to the point where some other opportunistic infection is able to overtake the body. As I wrote above, this end can be put off much later than ever before, and advances are still being made. Fatalistic responses like the first are unnecessary and ill-conceived. Here's hoping you've got a bit more info on your question. For more, you can check out the related links below.

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• With dedication and faith, we can search for a cure and hopefully find one that will free this nation from bondage!! Although there is not a cure right now, HIV/AIDS vaccines are in development and there is medicine on the market that is much stronger than it was before. Cocktail pills taken for HIV can now prolong AIDS for up to 10-15 years. HIV is only a disease and should never control you or your mind, once you let it get to you--you are defeated. You can conquer whatever you want to. With that, good luck and God bless!

• HIV is a virus - the Human Immuno Deficiency Virus.

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a condition brought on by long-term infection with HIV. This condition means that your immune system is so damaged that it cannot fight off simple infections an otherwise healthy person could.

To be diagnosed with AIDS, you must be HIV positive.

HIV is transmitted through semen, vaginal fluids, breast milk and blood.

You cannot get rid of AIDS. There are many, many medications an HIV+ person can take to keep them healthy, and keep their immune system working. No one knows how long these drugs are effective. I have clients who have been on triple drug combination therapy since the early 90's. When one drug combination fails - there are several others a patient can try. Theoretically, a patient can live a very long life if they take their medications properly.

• It is important to get the terminology right here:
  

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a syndrome (a collection of symptoms / illnesses) caused by the most advanced stages of HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) infection.

The term AIDS is simply a shorthand term for conveying late stage infection with HIV.

AIDS is not an illness as such, but a person is said to have developed AIDS when their immune system is so badly damaged by HIV that it can no longer fight off a range of defined opportunistic infections.

There is no known cure for HIV, so although there are potent drugs that help to keep the virus under control, none of them can completely get rid of the infection.

In terms of CDC reporting, AIDS is an incurable condition .. BUT in that context AIDS simply means that a person is HIV-positive AND has at some point either had a CD4 count below 200 per µL of blood, or has suffered from one of twenty or so AIDS-defining illnesses (it certainly does not mean that they are currently ill - and is therefore, in isolation, meaningless in terms of conveying a patients current condition).

With the exception of HIV itself, ALL the conditions / illnesses that lead to an AIDS diagnosis are potentially curable .. so whether or not you regard the condition of AIDS as being curable will very much depend on the exact definition you are employing, to what purpose the definition is being put and what country you are diagnosed in (the CDC definition is purely there for reporting purposes and is by no means a universal definition - indeed, very many countries no longer even use the term AIDS).

As regards people who claim to have been cured of HIV (or know of people who have been cured of HIV), it is worth noting that common HIV tests actually test for the presence of HIV antibodies - rather than the presence if the virus itself. Even if miraculously cured (and a miracle is what it would be), they would still have HIV antibodies and would therefore still test positive for HIV.

Viral load testing can also be used to measure the concentration of HIV in a person's blood. Some people are under the misguided impression that an "undetectable" viral load test means that they have been cured and that there is no HIV circulation in the blood - when infected they still have HIV and are still infectious, but have simply achieved the treatment target of less than 50 copies of HIV per µL of blood (the level at which standard tests can detect the virus with any degree of reliability).

In summary:

• Everyone who has AIDS is HIV-positive - but most people who are HIV-positive do not have AIDS.
• Even without any sort of medical intervention, it generally takes many years for an HIV infection to develop to a point where it is defined as AIDS - and with timely medical intervention, it is increasingly possible to delay the onset of AIDS indefinitely.
• HIV and AIDS are most definitely NOT the same thing.
• AIDS may, or may not, be curable - it really depends what definition you are using and what you are trying to say about a person's state of health.
• HIV infection is incurable. There is not a single verifiable case of anyone ever having been cured of an HIV infection.

there is no cure for AIDS but many peole live with AIDS for years without dieing

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