AIDS is listed as the top five terminal diseases of the century, so why is it said to be a chronic disease?
AIDS is classified as a terminal disease because once infected with HIV, it cannot be cured with the current level of medical technology.At least to date, no specific drug has been developed to treat HIV.
Not long ago, the media reported that the development of China's HIV vaccine has entered the phase II clinical trial stage. If the trial goes well, it is believed that the vaccine will be available on the market in a few years. However, the vaccine is only effective for HIV-negative people and can prevent HIV infection, while it is ineffective for patients who are already infected with AIDS to receive the vaccine.
In fact, apart from HIV, there are many other viral infections that cannot be cured. For example, Hepatitis B virus infection can be prevented by vaccination against Hepatitis B, but there is no specific drug to cure Hepatitis B virus. Rabies virus infection can only be prevented by vaccination and immunoglobulin injection after being bitten by an animal, and once the disease develops, the mortality rate is 100%. Herpes virus infection can only be relieved with the antiviral drug acyclovir, and the virus lurks in the ganglia for a long time, recurring over and over again, and cannot be cured at all.AIDS is called a chronic disease because it is a chronic process from the time of HIV infection to the time of death from the disease, and if well controlled, patients can live with the virus for many years.
When HIV infects the body, it does not develop immediately with the body's immunity. HIV attacks the immune cells, mainly CD4 cells, causing the body's immunity to decline. When the body's immunity is particularly weak, it is susceptible to numerous pathogens, and recurrent and persistent fever, diarrhea and weight loss occur. If the human body is compared to a country, then HIV is destroying the country's defenses, making it vulnerable to invasion by foreign enemies.
Currently, people living with HIV can take antiviral medications to suppress the virus, most commonly known as "cocktail therapy." AIDS patients can register with the CDC and receive free medication on a regular basis. If they cannot tolerate the side effects, they can purchase imported drugs. While taking the medication, viral loads and CD4 cell counts are monitored regularly to see how well the treatment is working. If the virus is well controlled, patients can survive for a long time. It is just like chronic diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes, which require long-term medication.
To summarize, AIDS is called a terminal disease because there is no cure for HIV as there is no specific drug to eradicate the disease. AIDS is called a chronic disease because it is a long process from infection to the onset of the disease, and patients can survive for a long time by taking medication to control the disease.
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...... Those claims are made by inept specialists and famous doctors, and we good Chinese folk doctors will never recognize the claims of terminal illnesses and chronic diseases, because AIDS is truly curable.
Because there are already drugs that can control the replication of the virus, when taken on time, the virus will not be replicated, it just can not be cured, but the life expectancy can be up to the average life expectancy of a human being, but here is a reminder for everyone to know how to prevent HIV, blood, mother-to-child, and sexually transmitted, I hope this helps! Easy to understand!
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