As part of our commitment to enhancing the pleasure of making love through a broader, more sensitive range of products, and our responsibility to realities like HIV infection, we present a few facts about AIDS.
1. What is AIDS?
AIDS is an abbreviated name of a disease. Its full name is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Acquired means not inborn but passed from person to person, including from mother to baby. Immune means relating to body's
immune system which provides protection from disease causing germs. Deficiency means lack of response by the immune system to germs. Syndrome means a number of signs and symptoms of one or more diseases.
2. What is HIV?
HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus; a virus which attacks and over time destroys the body's immune system, leading to AIDS.
3. What is STD?
STD stands for Sexually Transmitted Disease. STD is cause by viruses, bacteria and parasites. Viruses cause a number of STDs including genital warts, hepatitis B and genital herpes. Bacteria cause STDs such as
gonorrhea and syphilis. Scabies, trichomonas and public lice are parasite STDs.
4. What are the symptoms of HIV infection?
Presence of any one or more of the following signs or symptoms:
- Unexplained weight loss of more than 10%
- Fever for more than one month
- Coughing for more than one month
- Loose motion for more than one month
- Night sweating, body ache
- White patches in mouth, swollen glands
5. What are the diseases found in the full-blown AIDS condition?
