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Widespread coronavirus infections in parts of the world have proven just how vulnerable people exposed to it are. Even those who dedicated their lives to studying viruses can fall victim to it. Dr. Peter Piot, the special adviser on COVID-19 to the European Commission president, contracted the coronavirus in March last year and suffered a long COVID for five months. He has spent his whole career chasing viruses. He was with the team who first discovered Ebola, and he has led global efforts to fight HIV/AIDS for two decades. In an exclusive interview, Dr. Piot shares his thoughts on how we should prepare for future pandemics, as well as his painful personal story of surviving COVID-19.
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In This Story: HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans. Over time, they cause acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive.
Without treatment, average survival time after infection with HIV is estimated to be 9 to 11 years, depending on the HIV subtype. In most cases, HIV is a sexually transmitted infection and occurs by contact with or transfer of blood, pre-ejaculate, semen, and vaginal fluids. Research has shown (for both same-sex and opposite-sex couples) that HIV is untransmittable through condomless sexual intercourse if the HIV-positive partner has a consistently undetectable viral load.
Non-sexual transmission can occur from an infected mother to her infant during pregnancy, during childbirth by exposure to her blood or vaginal fluid, and through breast milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells.
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