short definition of HIV/AIDS

HIV = Human Immunodeficiency Virus

AIDS=Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

How we are infected with HIV? (Infection routes)

・sexual …sexual relationship

・Blood products…open wounds, blood transfusion and infection in intravenous drugs.

・Mother to child…during pregnancy, at childbirth and breast feeding

The symptoms of AIDS

・Pulmonary

・mental disorder

・Tumors

・active tuberculosis

・herpes zoster  …etc

AIDS has many symptoms and it has different symptoms in different stages.

What is the problem for children??

If the child’s mother has AIDS, child also has AIDS when they were born.

And some parents leave their baby and some parents died by AIDS, so the baby becomes an orphan.

We have medicine to arrest the disease but still we don’t have perfect treatment for AIDS.

So children need treatment for their life.