AIDS is one of the most serious epidemic diseases in the world in contemporary history. The spread of this disease has led to the death of millions of people around the world since the eighties of the last century to date, and governments have spent billions of dollars around the world to reduce the spread of this deadly disease, only That the efforts of countries in the areas of health care, awareness and modernization do not effectively affect the reduction of the continuous spread of this disease, especially in the poor countries in West Africa and South-East Asia.
The spread of AIDS infection
There are many reasons for the spread of infection with this disease caused by a virus called HIV or HIV. The virus is transmitted to the body by blood or absorbed by the mucous membranes in the body in some cases and from it into the bloodstream. The immune cells and the body’s immune system gradually leading to the emergence of the disease, known as AIDS, or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
The Finder of HIV
The discovery of this disease dates back to the early 1980s. One of the French doctors, Luc Montagnier, discovered the cause of some cases of bacterial and viral diseases that the immune system can easily confront. This was attributed to a viral disease that attacks the immune cells in the human body. On the virus in laboratories around the world to this day.
Ways of transmission of AIDS
The most important transmission of HIV is through sexual intercourse in all its forms. The virus travels through sperm or vaginal fluid to the other end of the relationship through micro-genital wounds, or mucous membrane absorption of the virus. This explains the large proportion of the disease Among gay men, and cases of transmission due to unsafe sex are the largest proportion of cases around the world in recent years.
The disease is also transmitted through polluted blood that passes from one person to another. Poor areas where there is no medical equipment for sterilization, especially in dental clinics, where the disease is highly transmitted, as well as addicts who use narcotics by injecting drugs, Cases in which the virus was transmitted by transfusion of contaminated blood in some poor countries. There are many cases where the timing of the disease can not be determined precisely because of the long incubation period of the virus in the body of up to ten years.