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I am having a case study for exams that needs me to tell information regarding HIV and AIDS.

Please help if you can answer the questions.

What is difference between HIV- antibody positive and HIV-antibody negative.

what information ELISA test gives us regarding HIV.

How is HIV spread and how this affects its spread.

What are the diseases that characterise AIDS and why they occur.

What are the cells predominantly affected by HIV and how that affects persons health

Any information and links available which help to clear above questions will be highly appreciated

Thanks in advance

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Hold on- what have YOU found on searches so far?

This isn't a drive-thru care plan service :) It's important for you to do the work, and not just leave US the assignment.

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I havent found these one , thats why am looking..The other big bunch, which i ve got..I know the ans, I havent written that up here.So If u know any site which have got information on above questions,pls reply.

Thank you

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Please do your own HMWK. I'm a student also so I know how hard it can be. These questions can be answered by your book or even using google.

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First, it is necessary to define the difference between HIV exposure and HIV infection. Exposure simply means that an individual has been exposed to the HIV virus. It does not necessarily mean that the individual will become infected with the virus, although continued exposures increase the chances of infection.

When infection occurs, the body will recognize the invader and fight back. The body's infection response mechanism produces antibodies to fight the virus, and it is the presence of these antibodies that confirms that an individual has been infected. The presence of HIV-specific antibodies in an individual's blood then defines that person as "HIV positive," meaning he also carries the HIV virus, and he can spread it to other people. "HIV negative" means the body has not produced antibodies to the virus.

Considerations

When an individual is HIV negative, it usually means the person is disease-free. However, there is one exception. Once an HIV infection is established, it takes the body up to six weeks to produce antibodies to the virus. It is possible for an individual to be HIV negative with an active infection if that infection occurred within a few weeks, and the body has not yet produced antibodies

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I am having a case study for exams that needs me to tell information regarding HIV and AIDS.

Please help if you can answer the questions.

What is difference between HIV- antibody positive and HIV-antibody negative.

what information ELISA test gives us regarding HIV.

How is HIV spread and how this affects its spread.

What are the diseases that characterise AIDS and why they occur.

What are the cells predominantly affected by HIV and how that affects persons health

Any information and links available which help to clear above questions will be highly appreciated

Thanks in advance

these are all really basic questions about HIV/AIDS that you should have learned in lecture.. if you havent learned it in lecture yet, i ASSURE you it is in your textbook, and at the very least google. I thought how HIV is spread was pretty common knowlege, but anywho here:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=What+is+difference+between+HIV-+antibody+positive+and+HIV-antibody+negative

that might get you on the right track.. :uhoh3:

sorry if i am sounding sarcastic and/or harsh but i feel like there have been A LOT of these "do my homework for me" posts lately and it irks me. i have no problem with "i have these nursing dx, what do you think i can change about them to make them better" or "im having trouble understanding ___, this is what i do understand about it, but i dont get ___.. is it this or this, etc" but PLEASE do not just give me a list of homework questions and ask for the answers.

how did people ever do their homework before they could ask annonymous people on the internet to do it for them? oh.. thats right, they did it themselves. they read books and ask their instructors for clarification. :smackingf

:spbox:

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I havent even learned HIV/AIDS yet and I know almost all of these answers... Check your textbook or even an hiv treatment website. mayoclinic, wikipedia.....

They are pretty basic questions that would be really difficult to get false info on offline.

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three websites to help you hunt for elusive info:

[color=#1122cc]medlineplus - health information from the national library of medicine

www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

health information from the national library of medicine. easy access to medline and health topics, medical dictionaries, directories and publications.

[color=#1122cc]google scholar

scholar.google.com/

provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

[color=#1122cc]welcome to nord — national organization for rare disorders

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