What is the cause of HIV infection?

Update Date: 2022-10-16 Source: Network

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AIDS is a kind of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, which is due to human being infected with immunodeficiency virus, resulting in immune function defects, complicated with a series of opportunistic infections, and finally leads to the syndrome and inevitable death. HIV, through the destruction of a large number of human lymphocytes, destroy the human immune system, and ultimately make the human immune system collapse, human loss of resistance to various diseases, causing systemic infection and death. AIDS is caused by HIV, which is called human immunodeficiency virus.

What is the cause of HIV infection?

Another route of transmission of HIV is mother to child infection. If the mother is infected with HIV, the mother is very likely to transmit HIV to the baby during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding. Especially when the mother is pregnant and giving birth, it is very likely that the virus will be transmitted to the fetus through the umbilical cord.

One of the causes of HIV infection is sexually transmitted infection. Having sex with a partner who has already been infected with HIV, through homosexual sexual contact, heterosexual contact, and bisexual contact, without protection, the patient is easy to be infected with HIV without any protective measures.

There is also a way of transmission of AIDS is blood transmission. In the process of patients undergoing various operations requiring blood transfusion, if the imported blood contains HIV, it will be transmitted to patients through blood. Some patients take drugs through intravenous injection and share the syringes used by the infected with others, which is easy to be infected

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AIDS is mainly caused by infection, usually develop good habits, have a fixed sexual partner, do not have sexual contact with other people, do not take drugs, usually if there is a wound to avoid contact with other people's blood, it is not easy to be infected with HIV. AIDS patients, active treatment, the effect is good.