Last stage of HIV

HIV leading to AIDS
HIV in most cases advanced to AIDS when anti retroviral drugs are not taken at the early stages of HIV. HIV is the contagion that causes AIDS but it causes AIDS if the precautions are not taken early enough until it started maturing.
HIV can be prevented from progressing to AIDS by taking some precautions like anti retroviral therapy. However,the precautions are not remedies for HIV but they can help to reduce the level of viral load in the particular person's body until HIV can not be detected any more in that individual's body

When the individual who is infected by HIV takes the ARVs as proscribed by the doctors, and that person started taking these drugs at the early stages of this diseases without a miss,this also may stabilized the antibodies which are produced only by the bodies of the individuals suffering from HIV except in a few cases where this antibodies can be produced by the body of those people who are not HIV victims. When this antibodies are stabilized, the individual may not suffer from AIDS and even the HIV may not be detected anymore in this person's body.
 The statistics shows that only a few patients sticks to their doctors prescription of the ARVs and among those who sticks to the prescription, 30% do not detect the virus in their bodies.

 HIV can only lead to AIDS when the precautions are not taken and the immune systems are weakened with the opportunistic diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia among many others.

 NOTE that even if the individual who is a HIV victim can no longer detect HIV virus in his/her body, he/she can still transfer the virus to another person. We referred to those people as HIV carriers. When this carriers went for VCT, they may test HIV negative but in real sense they have the virus, we referred to this test results as false negative.

    The assumption that HIV always leads to AIDS is a myth about this disease.

Sylvia Akoth

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