A diagnosis of HIV infection is no longer a sentence of death thanks to antiretroviral drugs. Scientists continue researching how to prevent and cure a disease that is charged each year two million lives.

Human immunodeficiency (HIV) virus infects the cells of the immune system, alters them and comes to cancel its function. Thus, the progressive deterioration of the immune system produced by the infection leads to immunodeficiency.

“Is considered to be immune deficient when it can not perform its role in fighting infections and diseases”, indicates the Organization World of health.

AIDS acronym for AIDS, is the most advanced HIV infection stage, they clarify the “guides for the use of antiretrovirals in adults and adolescents infected with HIV-1” of the Department of health and services human of United States.

Antiretroviral, recommended for infection by HIV, is to take on a daily basis a combination of drugs against the virus. “Although these drugs may not cure the infection, infected persons enjoy a healthy life and live longer,” says the cited document.

“Today, the patient is responding to medication to, correctly takes can have a life expectancy of very similar to a person not infected with HIV”, says José María Miró, Vice President of the Spanish society of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology and senior consultant of the infectious diseases of Hospital Clínic and Provincial de Barcelona service.

“AIDS, mortal fifteen years ago, now is a chronic disease in which a patient who acquire the infection at age twenty has a life expectancy of estimated more than forty years”, added the specialist.

To date, AIDS has claimed a toll of more than 27 million lives and it is estimated that each year die from this cause two million people, according to data of the world Organization of health.

Marking thirty years since that was the first case of the disease, UNAIDS estimated that about thirty-four million people living with HIV around the world.

On December 1 marks the world day against AIDS under the motto “Come to scratch”. This slogan refers to the goal of reaching zero, both the number of disease-related deaths and new infections. Something that, unfortunately, is still far from achieving to.

By purification León.

EFE-REPORTAJES.

December one celebrates World Day against AIDS under the motto “Come to scratch”.

DAR ES SALAAM (TANZANIA), 13/11/2011.-time made an AIDS test to a woman of the Kibaha district, Dar es Salaam, financial capital of Tanzania. EFE /