OBJECTIVES

• State ways how AIDS can transmit

from one person to another

• Explain the sign and symptoms

shown by AIDS patient
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1. A.I.D.S means ACQUIRED IMMUNE
DEFICIENCY SYNDROME

2. No medicine can cure this disease.

Therefore it can cause death.
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3. What cause A.I.D.S ?
It is caused by H.I.V
(HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS)

4. The virus destroys the human immune

system
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5. When the human immune system has
been destroyed, the body is unable to
fight any disease
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1. How do A.I.D.S transmit from one
person to another?
a) Sharing injection needles with an
infected person
 A.I.D.S TRANSMISSION
1. How do A.I.D.S transmit from one
person to another?
b) Sexual intercourse with an infected
person.
(SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE)
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1. How do A.I.D.S transmit from one person to
another?
c) Blood transfusion with blood from an
infected person

d) During pregnancy the virus may pass

from the infected mother to the foetus
(unborn baby)
 SYMPTOMS & SIGNS SHOWN BY
A.I.D.S PATIENTS

1. High fever (Chronic fever)

2. Severe Diarrhoea
 SYMPTOMS & SIGNS SHOWN BY
A.I.D.S PATIENTS

3. Pneumonia
(Fungus infected in the lungs)

4. Widespread tuberculosis or T.B

(Bacteria infected in the lungs)
 SYMPTOMS & SIGNS SHOWN BY
A.I.D.S PATIENTS

5. Cancer of blood vessels (Kaposi’s sarcoma)

 HOW TO PREVENT THE
SPREAD OF A.I.D.S
1. Avoid drug abuse

2. Avoid sharing instruments that are used

to break or cut the skin and can be
contaminated with blood.
(Example: razors)
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SPREAD OF A.I.D.S
3. Acupuncture, ear piercing or tattooing
should be done by reliable operators
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SPREAD OF A.I.D.S
4. Avoid having sexual intercourse with
people who have AIDS.

5. Males should wear condom if having

sexual intercourse