Going Further with HIV AIDS and Its Remedies

Until now, heard of HIV / AIDS as a terrible scourge. In fact, if understood in a logical, HIV / AIDS could be easily avoided. How is it?

The prevalence of HIV / AIDS in Indonesia has been moving at a very alarming rate. In 1987, cases of HIV / AIDS was found for the first time only on the island of Bali. While the present (2007), almost all provinces in Indonesia have been found in cases of HIV / AIDS.

The problem of HIV / AIDS have long been an issue with that kept the attention of various circles, especially the health sector. But the fact is a lot of information and understanding of these health problems are still unknown by the public further.

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV present in the body fluids such as blood, sexual fluids (semen or vaginal fluids that have been infected) and breast milk that has been infected. While AIDS is a syndrome of immunodeficiency caused by HIV. People who develop AIDS very easily infected by various diseases because the immune system of patients have menurun.HIV be transmitted to others through:

• Sexual intercourse (anal, oral, vaginal) the unprotected (without a condom) with a person who has been infected with HIV.
• Syringes / piercings / tattoos are not sterile and used interchangeably
• Getting a blood transfusion containing the HIV virus
• HIV positive mother to her baby while in the womb, during birth or through breast milk (ASI)

Transmission

HIV is not transmitted through normal social relationships such as shaking hands, touching, regular kissing, hugging, use eating and drinking utensils, mosquito bites, swimming pool, use the bathroom or WC / Toilet equal to or live at home with people living with HIV / AIDS ( PLHIV). PLWHA are living with HIV or AIDS. While OHIDA (People living with HIV or AIDS) the family (kids, wife, husband, father, mother) or friends of people living with HIV or AIDS.

More than 80% of HIV infection affects the productive age group, especially men, but the proportion of women with HIV are likely to increase. Infections in infants and children, 90% occur from mother with HIV. Until a couple of years, a person with HIV do not show clinical symptoms of HIV infection, however, the person may pass on to others. After that, AIDS began to grow and show signs or symptoms of clinical signs gejala.Tanda AIDS:

1. Weight loss of more than 10% in 1 month
2. Chronic diarrhea that lasts more than 1 month
3. More prolonged fever of1 month
4. Impairment of consciousness and neurological disorders
5. Dementia / HIV encephalopathy

Minor symptoms:

1. Cough lasts more than 1 month
2. Generalized dermatitis are itchy
3. The existence of multisegmental Herpes zoster and recurrent
4. Recurrent yeast infections in the female genital

HIV and AIDS can affect anyone. But in vulnerable groups are at risk of contracting HIV causes AIDS, that is:

1. People who behave sexually with multiple partners without using a condom
2. Injecting drug users who use needles together
3. Sexual partners of injecting drug users
4. Babies whose mothers are HIV positive

HIV can be prevented by breaking the chain of transmission, ie, using condoms during every sexual risk, do not use needles with children together, and where possible not breast-feed the child when the mother is HIV positive. Until now there is no medicine that can cure AIDS, but there is a cure for the HIV virus that suppresses the development of quality of life of people living with HIV is increasing. This drug must be taken for life.

Screening With Modern Technology

Most HIV tests are antibody tests that measure antibodies made the body to fight HIV. He takes time for the immune system to produce enough antibodies to be detected by antibody tests. This time period can vary from one person to another. This period diseput as usual 'window period'. Most people will develop detectable antibodies within 2 to 8 weeks. However, there is a possibility that some individuals will take longer to develop detectable antibodies. So, if the initial negative HIV test performed within 3 months after possible exposure to germs, repeated tests should be done about 3 months later, to avoid the possibility of false negative results. 97% of people will develop antibodies in the first 3 months after HIV infection occurs. In very rare cases, it will take 6 months to develop antibodies to HIV.

Another type of test is a test of RNA, which can detect HIV directly. The time between HIV infection and RNA detection is between 9-11 days. This test, which is more costly and used less often than antibody tests, have been used in some areas of the United States.

In most cases the EIA (enzyme immunoassay) used a sample of blood taken from a vein, is the most common screening test to detect HIV antibodies. EIA positive (reactive) should be used to test the conformation as Western blot to make a positive diagnosis. There are several types of EIA tests that use other body fluids to find HIV antibodies. They are

• Oral Fluid Test. Using oral fluid (not saliva) that is collected from the mouth using a special tool. This is the EIA antibody test similar to blood EIA test. Test conformation with the Western Blot method performed with the same sample.

• Urine Test. Using urine, not blood. The sensitivity and specificity of this test is not as good as blood and oral fluid test. It also requires a test conformation with Western blot method with the same urine sample.

If a patient is HIV-positive matches, it does not mean that her life partner is also positive. HIV does not have to be transmitted every time a sexual relationship. The only way to know whether a patient's life partner gets HIV positive or not is to perform an HIV test terhadapnya.Test HIV during pregnancy is important, because anti-viral therapy can improve maternal health and reduce the possibility of HIV-positive pregnant women to transmit HIV to her child in the before, during, or after birth. Therapy should be initiated as early as possible in pregnancy.