The symptoms of AIDS are primarily the result of infections that do not normally develop in people with healthy immune systems. These infections are termed "opportunistic infections."
             Patients with AIDS have had their immune system destroyed by HIV and are susceptible to such opportunistic infections.
             The general symptoms are fevers, sweats, chills, weakness, and weight loss. Some other ones are loss of energy, weight loss, a thick, whitish coating of the tongue or mouth that is caused by a yeast infection and sometimes accompanied by a sore throat. There is also an easier chance of bruising, a continuos deep dry cough, and an increase in loss of breathe.
             These symptoms however may not necessarily mean that you have AIDS. The best way to fully be sure that you have AIDS would be to go see a doctor. It may just be that you have a very bad cold. Yet people normally will have HIV for years before they fully develop AIDS at which point they should be aware of it.
             There are however for main stages of HIV/AIDS. This is how people normally develop AIDS:
             This is when people first contract HIV/AIDS.
             This stage may last about three (3)
             months and in some rare cases, as long as a year.
             Now a process to produce anti-bodies
             symptoms of infection. This stage may last for years.
             At this stage, people show signs and symptoms of
             infection. This stage may last for years as well.
             Immune system cells are severely depleted.
             Now the body enters full blown AIDS.
             At this point the body's Immune System
             is completely destroyed. So now more
             diseases easily spread to the victim.
             However children get more symptoms which are also complications within them selves. Some of these symptoms are:
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