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When dealing with any disease, its symptoms, diagnosis and its treatments it is important that you are familiar enough with the disease in order to make wise decisions. The purpose of this article is to suggest some further reading so that you are at least able to answer such questions as the ones listed below. Below each question is a further reading link or links. Ideally after this short study of HIV you will be aware of the nature of the virus, what you must do to avoid it and what to do if you fear you are at risk...

Many people grow concerned that they may have the HIV virus when experiencing typical flu symptoms or other symptoms they believe connected to HIV.  If that individual recalls a prior sexual encounter that involved unprotected sex and therefore put that individual at risk of HIV infection then this can be a cause of great concern and anxiety in relation to the medical symptoms they are experiencing. To resolve this anxiety and concern it is important to remember that there are no certain symptoms that would categorically identify the HIV virus.  Some individuals may in fact show no symptoms at all...

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...

And remember, this is diagnosed cases, it does not calculate people who have HIV and do not know as it shows no set symptoms and can go undetected from many years. It also does not count those who know butt have not been medically diagnosed within Australia.       Wiki.     “On 19 October 2010, The Sydney Morning Herald reported that 21,171 Australians have HIV, with 1,050 new cases diagnosed in 2009. The Sydney Morning Herald also reported that 63% of Australians living with HIV were men.     On 17 October 2012, The Daily Telegraph reported that up to 35,000 Australians have HIV,...