World Health Organization (WHO) published this video item, entitled “World AIDS Day 2021 – WHO’s Director-General’s message” – below is their description.
Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we are still a long way from ending it. But there’s another infectious threat that, after more than 40 years, is not over either – the HIV/AIDS epidemic. On World AIDS 2021, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus calls on governments and citizens to use every tool in the toolbox to narrow inequalities, prevent HIV infections, save lives, and end the AIDS epidemic.
More information: https://www.who.int/campaigns/world-aids-day/world-aids-day-2021
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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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