HIV/AIDS
Other names | HIV disease, HIV infection
Specialty | Infectious disease
Symptoms | Early: Flu-like illness Later: Large lymph nodes, fever, weight loss
Complications | Opportunistic infections, tumors
Duration | Lifelong
Causes | Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Risk factors | Exposure to blood, breast milk, sex
Diagnostic method | Blood tests
Prevention | Safe sex, needle exchange, male circumcision, pre-exposure prophylaxis, post-exposure prophylaxis
Treatment | Antiretroviral therapy
Prognosis | Near normal life expectancy with treatment 11 years life expectancy without treatment
Frequency | 1.8 million new cases (2016) 36.7 million living with HIV (2016)
Deaths | 1.0 million (2016)