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What do you think about AIDS, an irreversible immunodeficiency disease, and the fact that people with AIDS show reluctance to die?

The vast majority of people have a desire to survive.Not to mention AIDS patients, but also other patients who, when faced with death, may show reluctance to die.It's human instinct.

The question you posed, stating that AIDS is an irreversible immunodeficiency disease, is not entirely true.HIV causes immunodeficiency primarily by attacking CD4+ T-lymphocytes, leading to a gradual decrease in their numbers, triggering opportunistic infections and tumors.

This immunodeficiency, however, is amenable to antiviral therapy that suppresses viral replication to a minimum level, thereby allowing CD4+ T lymphocytes to rise and to return to normal levels, i.e., theThis state of compromised immunity can be partially reversed (restored).

What cannot be reversed is the HIV status of the infection, that is, the currentThere is no way to completely remove the virus from its hiding place, i.e. the virus databaseThis is the challenge of the century in the treatment of AIDS.

However, the fact that a disease cannot be cured does not necessarily mean that it will lead to death or that there is nothing that can be done about it. Since the invention of the "cocktail" therapy, many AIDS patients have been able to control their disease and live a relatively long life.Some HIV-infected people, such as basketball star Magic Johnson and China's longest-surviving HIV-infected person, Meng Lin, are good examples.

In fact, many diseases cannot be cured, including hypertension, diabetes mellitus, hepatitis B, and so on, thus giving rise to the concept of chronic diseases. In recent years, great progress has been made in the management of chronic diseases, and this way of managing themThere is a difference between a cure through eradication, but rather an effective management approach to control further progression of the disease and achieve a good quality of life and life expectancy.

I wonder what kind of mindset the questioner is in when he says things like people with AIDS are not willing to die? Is it that they want others not to fear death? Or is it a fear that it will threaten their own health? This is actually a psychological problem.

For those who are afraid.If there were no AIDS in the world, there would be other things to fear.: Is there any risk in going out? Is it 100% safe to ride in a car, to fly, to walk? Does man have to create a special armor to protect himself? But even then, there are diseases that may be present in a person's body that can erupt at any time.

Therefore, having a proper understanding of the disease and facing it positively is the right mindset. It is said that AIDS patients are not willing to die. What about other people, are they so willing to die?

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There's something wrong with the mindset of this question, isn't there?

The world is full of deadly diseases, and if you look at the effectiveness of drug treatment, people with AIDS or HIV are considered good. For example, for certain cancers, targeted drugs that can extend survival by about 1 or 2 years on average are already considered significant treatment effects, while cocktail therapy can enable most HIV-infected people who are detected in time and even some of the patients who have already developed the disease to survive for a long time, 5 years, 10 years, or even close to the normal human life expectancy.

As for not being willing to die, go to hospitals and look at the thousands of terminally ill patients in various departments and the bedridden old people in nursing homes, who are willing to die?

To be a man, to do learning, first of all, we must have integrity of character, scientific attitude, rich knowledge, objective evidence, rational thinking, rather than out of thin air, subjective labeling.

Compassion and empathy are still too few and far between when it really comes down to it.

This sentiment stems from information asymmetry.

This means that most HIV-infected patients experience anxiety, panic, and despair that can explode into emotional meltdowns, hysteria, and even suicidal thoughts.

And the reason is still because of the subjective belief that HIV infection is equal to AIDS, which is a hopeless disease, i.e., it is hard to escape in the end, and worse still, HIV infection is considered to be sexual promiscuity, homosexuality, or even the selling of YP prostitutes, i.e., a double collapse of the dignity of life and of the basic life. Even simple or unjustified panic can cause corresponding somatic symptoms (emetophobia).

The totally ignorant and totally known groups don't blow a gasket, and the half-knowledgeable ones basically cry their eyes out at the touch of a hand. Actually, switching to Hepatitis B, which is also a STD, would probably be less alarming.

So the root cause of these problems is still to work on eliminating information asymmetry, publicizing HIV, spreading general knowledge, eliminating high-risk behaviors, addressing the core anxiety of marginalized populations, and doing a good job of controlling the disease at the national level. The other is to increase investment in scientific research, according to the current posture of global attention to the whole of mankind to attack the vaccine can be taken down within 20 years.


Strengthen the AIDS prevention publicity and prevention, and strengthen the AIDS medical examination for foreigners and foreign students, who come to China. To prevent the enemy disease from entering the country. Nowadays, there is a trend of uncontrollable spread of AIDS in Africa. Don't be as passive as you were when SARS broke out and buy a lesson with your life. Don't forget the pain after you've done your job. The whole society should take action and have a sense of crisis.

Mindset is very important, the article has already said, AIDS is now a chronic disease, as long as the medication is taken on time, inhibit the replication of the virus, and the same as a normal person, eat, drink, play, do not worry, with a positive attitude to face the later life!

No one knows when they'll die. Just live each day to the fullest.

Pure headline party outdated idea Gansu rabbit hair by drug control and normal life expectancy in foreign countries has long been a chronic disease prevention and treatment! Only the world in chaos!!!

AIDS is a chronic disease, you have a problem asking questions, every patient is afraid to die, everyone is afraid to die! Now AIDS is like Hepatitis B. It's not curable, but it's controllable!

No matter who you are, you are bound to die. It doesn't depend on age, status, or gender. Even a cold or a fever can kill you now.

Early diagnosis of AIDS should be studied.

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