Speech about AIDS

Speech about AIDS

Today people are mostly informed about Acquired immunodefiency syndrome. And I think that you know about the HIV, human immunodiefiency virus too. And I don't want to tell you very much about infection and about prevention because I think that you know that.

But what I want to tell you, is the difference between HI-virus and AIDS, where this illness comes from and about the HIV-Test.

The difference between HIV and AIDS:

If you are HIV-positive, you are HIV infected, that means you have HI-virus in your blood, but you aren't ill. You can be positive for a lot of years and you don't know it, because the HI-virus spreads out very slowly.

You speak generally of Aids if the person has not only HI-virus in his body, but only three hard infections or a cancer, which comes from the weakness of the immune systeme.

How long does it take after infection until Aids breaks out?

It's different from person to person. Some people are infected for ten years and have no big healthproblems. Other people have Aids after infection two years ago and they die sooner.

In the most cases Aids breaks out five til nine years after infection.

HIV- Test:

Mostly there are two steps for a detection. There are two different tests. The ELISA-Test,

and the Western Blot. First the ELISA- Test is done. If the test is negative, the result cannot be false. But when it is positive, it can be false. Then the Western Blot must be done. There cannot be a false result.

If you had a one night stand and no safer sex and you want to test yourselve, you have to wait some weeks because when you do the test, for example, next week, the test can be false. Because your immune systeme hasn't produced antibody, although you had infect.

Where AIDS comes from:

Nobody knows exactly how AIDS developed. There are various hypothesis. Scientists think that virus like the HIV exist for thousends of years in Central Africa. It followed an expansion from Central Africa to the coast. In the 50th and 60th there was a big emigration from Haiti to Africa and then people came back again. Haiti was holidayland number one for American homosexual. Then there was an expansion in the American "Gaycities" San Francisco and New York. By it happened an epedemic. By sextourism followed worldwide spread.

The first clinical picture was 1980 in San Francisco.

I think the best thing that we can do against Aids is, that we know the facts about this illness

Handout about  AIDS Nina Michlmair

"Acquired immunodiefiency syndrome"

HIV- "human immunodiefiency virus"

The difference between HIV and AIDS:

If you are HIV-positive, you are HIV infect, that means you have HI-virus in your blood, but you aren't ill. You can be positiye for a lot of years and you don't know it, because the HI-virus spreads out very slowly.

You speak generally of Aids if the person has not only HI- virus in his body, but only three hard infections or a cancer, which comes from the weakness of the immune systeme.

HIV-Test:

Mostly there are two steps for a detection. There are two different tests. The ELISA-Test, and the Western Blot. First the ELISA-Test is done. If the test is negative, the result cannot be false. But when it is positive it can be false.Then the Western Blot must be done. There cannot be a false result.

Where AIDS comes from:

Nobody knows exactly how Aids developed. There are various hypothesis. Scientists think that virus like the HIV exist for thousends of years in Central Africa. It followed an expansion

from Central Africa to the coast. In the 50th and 60th There was a big emigration from Haiti to Africa and then people came back again. Haiti was holidayland number one for American homosexual. Then there was an expansion in the American  "Gaycities" San Francisco and New York. By it happened an epedemic. By sextourism followed worsdwide spread.

The first clinical picture was 1980 in San Francisco.

Words:

"Acquired immunodifiency syndrome"- " Erworbenes Immundefekt Syndrom"

"human immunodefiency virus"- menschliches Immundefekt- Virus"

cancer- Krebserkrankung

coast- Küste

expansion- Ausbreitung

emigration- Auswanderung

epidemic- Epidemie

clinical picture- Nachweis