International day for fight against AIDS

As most of you might know 1st December is the day for fight against one of the most dangerous and wide spreaded diseases.In that respect i just wanted to make some sort of tribute to all the people who unfortunately suffer from it and to give reckognition to those who fight against it and who provide HIV positive people with new lease of life.Today 40 million people of entire world population has AIDS.Situation is pretty alarming since 1/3 of these are children under the age of 15.
What is even bigger concern is that in some countries this matter is still taboo topic,hence why they even can`t get necessarry help.
I hope this thread wasn`t inappropriate and i will just remind all of you briefly what AIDS actually is. Stay safe!


Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), human viral disease that ravages the immune system, undermining the body’s ability to defend itself from infection and disease. Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), AIDS leaves an infected person vulnerable to opportunistic infections. Such infections are harmless in healthy people, but in those whose immune systems have been greatly weakened, they can prove fatal. Although there is no cure for AIDS, new drugs are available that can prolong the life spans and improve the quality of life of infected people.Infection with HIV does not necessarily mean that a person has AIDS. Some people who have HIV infection may not develop any of the clinical illnesses that define the full-blown disease of AIDS for ten years or more. Physicians prefer to use the term AIDS for cases where a person has reached the final, life-threatening stage of HIV infection.


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If you would like to know more about it,feel free to ask.I used to be a member of Serbian association for fight against AIDS and in that way i`ve learnt a lot about it.