Welcome
To AIDS Alert International's corporate presence (narrowband)
?AIDS Alert?s
mission is to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS through proactive
actions such as community based research, publications,
workshops, conferences and support programmes. We also act as
a global advocate on HIV/AIDS and related issues?
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Welcome
to the AIDS Alert International Narrowband website. Please
browse our easy to use
navigation panel on the left for details of all current, and future programmes,
and events both international and domestic, to see
examples of the individual and distinctive missions and
beliefs we as an organisation hold and to access all the
information about our corporation, news, contacts and partner
NGO's
For your convenience, this interactive site carries up-to-the-minute
information on the available treatments for HIV/AIDS, along with
beta drugs, a brief explanation of HIV/AIDS (see below) and
full details on how to contact the relevant departments you
require at either AIDS Alert International or
Cobb-Productions.
What Is AIDS,
HIV, and HIV Disease?
What is AIDS?
A
- Acquired - because it's a condition one must acquire or get
infected with, not something transmitted through the genes
I
- Immune - because it affects the body's immune system, the part
of the body which usually works to fight off germs such as
bacteria and viruses
D
- Deficiency - because it makes the
immune system deficient (makes it not work properly)
S
- Syndrome - because someone with AIDS may experience a wide
range of different diseases and opportunistic infections
What is HIV?
H -
Human - because this virus can aids disease only
infect human beings.
I -
Immuno-deficiency - because the effect
definition of hiv aids of the virus is to create a deficiency, a failure to work
properly, within the body's immune system.
V
- Virus - because this organism is a virus, which means one of
its characteristics is that it is incapable of reproducing by
itself. It reproduces by taking over the machinery of the human
cell.
HIV is the
virus most researchers believe causes AIDS. However, some
controversial scientists remain unconvinced that HIV is the
cause of AIDS. Others believe that HIV can cause AIDS only in
the presence of a "co-factor" -- some other virus or condition
which has not yet been identified.
Scientists
reported recently the existence of cases of people with severe
immunodeficiency but with no evidence of HIV infection. Several
researchers suspect the existence of a different virus. Some
others speculate that these patients' immunodeficiency is due to
other causes. But more research is needed to explain these
cases.
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