What You Need to Know About HIV and AIDS
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About this course
How to read this course
Introduction
What is HIV?
What is AIDS?
A brief history of HIV and AIDS
HIV and AIDS—a timeline
Section quiz
HIV under the microscope
All about cells
All about viruses
How HIV attaches to a cell
What happens once HIV gets inside a cell
Section quiz
HIV in people
How the body responds to HIV
Primary stage
Asymptomatic stage
Symptomatic stage (early HIV disease)
AIDS (advanced HIV disease)
Opportunistic infections
Section quiz
What we can do about HIV
Testing for HIV
Drugs for HIV
Resistance—why the drugs stop working
Vaccines for HIV
Section quiz
How we can stop HIV
How people get infected with HIV
Infection during sex
Infection by injection
Mother-to-child infection
Section quiz
Conclusion