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HIV infection rate in Australia is at its highest in 20 years with an increase of 10 percent according to the report released by Kirby Institute of New South Wales. The rapid increase of diagnosed HIV cases has turned it into an epidemic. Studies conducted by the institute found out that 1,253 new cases were added in 2012. The number is still going to rise given that there are still an estimated number of 10 to 25 percent of people infected with HIV who remain undiagnosed. Sexual contact among homosexual men is the main contributor to the rise of HIV...

Firstly let us look at exactly what happens when somebody in Australia is infected with the HIV virus Within a month or two of HIV entering the body, 40% to 90% of people experience flulike symptoms known as acute retroviral syndrome (ARS). The problem here is that inversely it is possible that at least 60 per cent of individuals infected with HIV virus will show no symptoms at all.  Additionally in some cases the HIV symptoms don't appear for years—sometimes even a decade—after infection. As a result…"In the early stages of HIV infection, the most common symptoms are none," says...

Many individuals considering an HIV test will do so because they are worried about risk of infection and believe they may be showing HIV symptoms. HIV is a virus that enters the body through an exchange of bodily fluids and then like any virus produces a reaction within the body. This can be a typical viral reaction such as flu like symptoms or more sever such as fevers and rashes or it may produce no symptoms. At some stage, normally around 4-12 weeks the body will produce antibodies to the HIV virus. At this stage a 3rd generation HIV test...

More than half of this planet is affected with HIV virus that has killed more than a billion of earth’s population till date. This virus results in people getting affected with Aids, a disease that slows down your immunity and makes you susceptible to various dangerous and life threatening illnesses. Aids is directly related to HIV but a person infected with this virus need not have Aids at all. HIV is quite difficult to detect but one must take care to check for the following if he or she thinks something is wrong with their health. For example: one most...

This recent headline is a shocking wake up call for Australia as it loses the war on HIV infection rates. The underlying message here is of course safe sex prevents HIV transmission. However, a second message is highlighted by the fact that this sort of infection is nor the normal method of HIV transmission. That is the person transmitting the HIV virus to an un-expecting individual is mostly unaware they even carry the virus themselves. So ignoring this shocking headline lest look at that majority of HIV infections. They are as a result of unprotected sexual contact between with an...