Know the difference between these two deadly diseases, HIV and AIDS

News24xx.com - Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV is a different disease from Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS. We are usually heard as HIV-AIDS, so many people mistakenly assume that they are the same disease.

Described by Dr. Adiyana Esti from the Angsa Clinic in Jakarta, HIV and AIDS are something different. AIDS arises due to damage to the body's defense system due to HIV. So that all people with AIDS are sure to have HIV, but not all people with HIV have AIDS.

HIV is a disease in which a virus attacks CD4 in T cells which are the part of white blood cells. CD4 function in the body as an 'alarm' that the body has been entered by a foreign substance or a dangerous virus.

So, with CD4 paralysis due to the HIV virus, the body will not be able to recognize any infection or disease that enters the body. Then the human immune system will be disrupted and body will no longer be able to defend itself from germs, and eventually turns into AIDS.

"With good treatment, PLWHA will not become AIDS. PLWHA can have a good quality of life, can pursue their dreams, and do many things. It turns out that there are many old people who have this disease, I have met people with the age 79 years old" explained Dr. Esti.

Dr. Esti said that many say that once they are infected with HIV, someone will become sick, even though they are not. Except if it has become AIDS, which can even cause death because body has difficulty maintaining its own immunity.

 

 

 

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