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AIDS

(Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome) 

Nader Jallouk
What is AIDS
AIDS is an acquired disease that weakens your
immune system that also causes a lot of health
problems.
AIDS isn’t automatically acquired it starts off as HIV
and later develops to AIDS.
AIDS doesn’t kill by itself it weaken your immune
system and when you get sick like a fever or a cold
that’s when it can kill.
There is no cure.
Aids does damage to about 50% of the brain’s
tissues . Also damages controlling movement,
memory and planning in the brain.
Aids Awareness Day

The awareness day


for Aid for the
Asian Pacific
Islanders is on May
19
People who donate blood or organs can’t get
aids unless there using material that was
already used by someone who’s already
infected.
If someone receives blood or organs from some
one who is infected with AIDS or HIV they are
going to get the disease(s).
Percentage of People in the U.S. That
Have AIDS
Sources
• http://www.aids.gov/awareness-days/national-asian-pacific-islander/\
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001620/
• http://www.aids.org/topics/aids-factsheets/aids-background-information/what-is-aids/

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