HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)

HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a virus that attacks the immune system and can weaken the body's ability to fight infection and disease.

AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a condition where HIV is in the final stage of infection. When someone has AIDS, the body no longer has the ability to fight the infection it causes.
By undergoing certain treatments, HIV sufferers can slow the progression of this disease, so that HIV sufferers can live a normal life.

In Indonesia, the spread and transmission of HIV is mostly caused by unsafe intimate relationships and taking turns using unsterile syringes when using drugs.

A person infected with HIV can transmit it to other people, even several weeks after being infected. Everyone is at risk of HIV infection.

Groups of people who are more at risk of infection include:

People who have intimate relations without a condom, both same-sex and heterosexual relations.

People who often get tattoos or piercings.

People who have other sexually transmitted infections.

Injecting narcotics users.

People who have intimate relations with injecting narcotics users.

Symptoms of HIV and AIDS depend on the stage at which the person is infected.
The first stage:

Does not cause any symptoms for several years.

Sufferers will experience pain, flu, several weeks after infection, for one to two months.

Fever, sore throat, rash, swollen lymph nodes, diarrhea, fatigue, muscle and joint pain.