AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a disease whereas the immune system is weakened due to the infection of the HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). When a person is infected with the HIV, their immune system will weaken overtime, and in the end it leads to AIDS.
AIDS is the sixth biggest cause of death among people still in the productive range of age (25-44) in the USA. The spreading of AIDS is usually through the merging or contact of body fluids, since the HIV thrives in body fluids such as the saliva, tears, cerebrospinal fluid, blood, semen and vaginal fluid. The virus is transmitted through, most commonly known, sexual contact, blood transfusions and from mother to child.
The disease/the virus is NOT spread through casual contacts such as hugging, touching or participating in sports or mosquitoes, nor can it spread through the use of cups/spoons, although prevention may be nice (not by refusing to use cups that has been used by another person with AIDS, but by washing it thoroughly first). So be nice to people with HIV/AIDS, they're people too, they're one of us too.
These photographs are a school project for the photography class. The assignment is to take a picture that is related to our main major, and since I'm majoring in Medicine, I have to take pictures related to the medical field.
This is a person with HIV/AIDS, getting his shot and thorax scan with the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). Jakarta, 12th of October 2012.
References
1. PubMed Health. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001620/
2. What is AIDS? What causes AIDS? http://www.aids.org/topics/aids-faqs/what-is-aids-what-causes-aids/
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