AIDS

Managing and disseminating meaningful and necessary information for the prevention,management of AIDs is vital to the quality of life for those who wish to avoid contracting AIDs and those who have already been infected. there are volumes of information from a variety of reliable sources and invations and discoveries are occurring daily. Keeping up is a challenge. AIDS or Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - is defined as any of a list of illnesses that, when occurring in an HIV-infected person, leads to a diagnosis of AIDS, the most serious stage of HIV infection. AIDS is also diagnosed if an HIV-infected person has a CD4 count below 200 cells/mm3, whether or not that person has an AIDS-defining condition. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a list of AIDS-defining conditions in 1993. The 26 conditions include candidiasis, cytomegalovirus disease, Kaposi's sarcoma, mycobacterium avium complex, pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, recurrent pneumonia, progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, pulmonary tuberculosis, invasive cervical cancer, and wasting syndrome.