STD HIV 2 population at risk clinical

At risk population

- Known HIV positive patients

- Homosexuals males

- Haemophilia patients who have received HIV positive blood

- Children of seropositive mother

- Sexual partner of seropositive females.

Clinical Presentation

The  manifestations of AIDS are due not to virus itself,  but  to

the immune abnormalities that you may see in patients with immune

damage due to HIV infections and these are:

*  Decreased T4 lymphocytes in the blood

*  Hypergammaglobulinaemia

*  Impaired  cutaneous delayed hypersensitivity (for example,  to

   the tuberculin test)

Many conditions can temporarily suppress the cell-mediated immune

response, notably tuberculosis, malaria, manifestations of  viral

infections  such  as measles. However, with HIV  infections,  the

immune deficiency is permanent.

*  Sometimes after infection, the person sero-converts, that  is,

   they start to produce antibodies to HIV

*  A few patients may experience an acute febrile illness at  the

   time of seroconversion

*  The illness  lasts about 14 days, and is similar to  influenza

   or glandular fever

*  Many patients have no such fever

*  Most people infected with HIV have no symptoms. The  infection

   is latent, and they are asymptomatic carriers

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