A Research into the Prevalence of HIV and Risk Factors that Can Predispose Students of College of Health Sciences and Technology Ijero Ekiti To HIV Infection
IV stands for “human immunodeficiency virus”:“human” because the virus causes diseases only in people; “immunodeficiency” because the immune system, which normally protects a person from disease, becomes weak; “virus” because like all viruses, HIV is a small organism that infects living things and uses them to make copies of itself. HIV causes AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome). AIDS is a group of diseases that occur when a person’s immune system is damaged by HIV. When HIV is in the body, it start to destroy CD4+ cells which are white blood cells (WBC) that help the body to fight infections and diseases. HIV is spread when blood, semen or vaginal fluids from an infected person enters another person’s body, usually through sexual contact, sharing of needles, injection of drugs or from mother to child during birth.
