Lesson 1: What does HIV look like?
What is HIV? Draw a portrait with words of the type of person who has this disease.
This post was edited on: 2010-11-25 at 02:22 AM by: Terry Godwaldt (Moderator)
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HIV is a disease that gets passed on through people
A person with HIV looks like anyone or everyone. Any race, any gender, and age.
Hi Terry,
we are students from secondary medical school Ante Kuzmanic, Zadar, Croatia.
We asked 100 students from our school that same question that you asked.
75% of students correctly answered the question
20% of students incorrectly answered the question
5% didn't write anything
100% students didn't know how to draw a portrait of the type of person who has HIV.
The reason why they didn't know how to describe the person who has HIV is that we have only few cases of that disease in our community, so it doesn't represent a big issue.
HIV is a disease which can either be unseen for years or it can have symptoms which include: red bumps, pimple like things, or any form of a rash. But the person who has HIV looks like no one in specific; HIV does not discriminate.
A person with HIV would possibly have rashes all over or on a small spot on their body. They also can develop sores on or beside their mouth and on their body. People who have HIV tend to be very thin as a result of drastic weight loss.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus is the full name for HIV. HIV is a virus that targets your immune system and makes you more vulnerable to a chronic, developing illness that susceptible and defenceless against opportunistic to extra infections and cancers, Once the body can’t fight the infection no longer it is considered aids. Aids is short for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. On average it takes about 10 years for HIV to fully develop into AIDS.
http://www.sciencephoto.com/images/showFullWatermarked.html/M112364-Shingles_rash_in_an_HIV_patient-SPL.jpg?id=771120364
http://depts.washington.edu/hivaids/images/derm/derm_c4_q01.jpg
HIV can look like bubbled skin, and it can also look like mass amount of pimples all over their body, or in certain unusual places.
ivanjeric wrote:
The reason why they didn't know how to describe the person who has HIV is that we have only few cases of that disease in our community, so it doesn't represent a big issue.
Maybe not in your own community, but HIV is a MAJOR issue. Describing someone is simple. Who does it affect? How does it affect them? HIV/AIDS can affect anyone and everyone. Either directly or indirectly. Sores, rashes and other skin issues can become apparrent through the entire body. Weight loss can become a major issue, causing people to shrink in size.
This post was edited on: 2010-11-30 at 11:14 AM by: Shaun-Trottier
kayla
Nov 26, 2010 at 1:05 PM