HOW AIDS COMES?

HOW AIDS COMES?

Most people think AIDS is an infectious disease. It is useful to correct this general misconception. AIDS is not contagious because it is caused by damage caused by the HIV virus in the immune system. The infectious thing is the HIV virus that causes AIDS. So the question is, "How is HIV transmitted?" It is more correct to ask. The HIV virus can be found in body fluids such as blood, breast milk and offspring. Fluid transfer is essential for the transmission of the virus to another individual. For this reason, the most common HIV cases are transmitted through sexual intercourse or blood. Since the HIV virus, which has a fragile structure, cannot live outside the body for a long time, it cannot be transmitted through saliva, sneezing, urine or sweat. Therefore, the idea of ​​getting HIV from the toilet bowl, which has become a legend, is completely wrong. According to the Ministry of Health in Turkey between 1985 and 2018, 19 748 HIV (+), also it has 1,172 AIDS cases and 49.4 percent of these cases of sexual origin. This result reveals once again how important it is to use condoms before having sexual intercourse. If you want to find out if you have HIV, you need to have an elisa test. In the Elisa test, it is determined whether a blood sample is taken from an individual who is suspected of HIV or not. The blood sample collected is examined in the laboratory to see if there are anti-HIV antibodies in the blood. Anti-HIV antibodies are produced by the immune system to fight the HIV virus. If the test result is positive, it means that you have the HIV virus. The Elisa test starts giving the correct results 3 weeks after the suspicious relationship. However, since this period can be extended up to three months, it is useful to have a new test in the third month after the relationship.