Module 1: Overview of HIV Infection

Lab workers Health workers Counselors 2

Lab workers Health workers Counselors 3

HIV Learning Objectives

Lab workers Health workers Counselors 4

Content Overview About HIV

• What is HIV?• What is AIDS?• The HIV pandemic

Lab workers Health workers Counselors 5

What Is HIV

Human: Infecting human beingsImmunodeficiency: Decrease or weakness in the body’s ability to fight off infections and illnessesVirus: A pathogen having the ability to replicate only inside a living cell

Lab workers Health workers Counselors 6

Lab workers Health workers Counselors 7

Aids is a disease in which there is a severe loss of the body's cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy

What is AIDS?

Lab workers Health workers Counselors 8

The HIV Pandemic is infectious Knowledge. AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus.

If you want to get more information visit us

What is The HIV pandemic