HIV is an acronym that stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. This virus, discovered in the 1980s by a group of French researchers on an expedition to Africa, is the cause of AIDS, an acronym whose meaning is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. For years, in the general collective, both terms have been misused, since it is thought that both are the same disease. If it is true, that they are closely related, but that does not imply that they are synonymous, as stated, HIV is only a strain of the infection, that is, the direct cause of the disease that is AIDSAs an analogy, HIV is the weapon, AIDS is the wound.
The HIV is classified as a "virus Lentovirus " as a pun, it's that, an infection that from the moment it touches the body and begins to interact with the body begins with a long and complex process of transformation defense mechanisms.
When HIV affects a cell, we have two options, the first is that the infection establishes an invader position, uses the cell's DNA and alters its behavior, so that although it continues with its functions, these deviate from the precise objectives for which it was intended. The other way in which HIV infects is nomadically, it makes a kind of "walk" between all cells weakening each of the defense systems simultaneously.
The most popular forms of transmission of the virus are blood transfusion (infected needles or medical malpractice) and through sexual transmission, the latter receives the most extensive awareness campaign in the world, so that HIV is not transmitted by recklessly in young people who are the most affected. However, it has been discovered in any body fluid in the body, of course, depending on the progression of the disease, it can be found in sweat, breast milk, urine, tears and cerebrospinal fluid.
