he or she will generally remain clinically healthy. This stage occupies about 80 percent of the time from infection to death. In this period the virus slowly but surely spreads throughout the body. Thrush, shingles and tuberculosis, combined with weight loss, fever and fatigue are all common symptoms of the late asymptomatic stage, and it‘s the beginning of AIDS. In South Africa people live with HIV until the very end of the asymptomatic stage without even knowing they are infected by the virus.
             Stage 4: AIDS. It is at this stage that the person moves from being merely HIV positive to having full-blown AIDS. Infections like tuberculosis, meningtis, pneumonia and other bacterial infections are very dangerous at this stage. Although, technically it is not strictly a disease, it is often referred to as one. Rather, AIDS is a catchall for the many medical conditions that arise from a weakened immune system that can no longer fight infections. Therefore a person does not die of AIDS, but rather to an infection, or collection of infections.
             I have know explained to you how the HIV/AIDS virus begins and ends, now I will change the subject to the country South Africa and all its problems with this illness.
             It‘s pretty obvious that the biggest problem facing South Africa right now isn‘t racism, or unemployment, but the very dangerous virus known as AIDS.
             When democracy was introduced in South Africa in 1994, it was supposed to decrease the huge gap between the two South Africans, one a nation of vast wealth occupied by whites, the other a country of poverty inhabited by its black majority. But an already difficult task has become much more complicated by one of the worst HIV epidemics in history. The modern infrastructure, the new democracy have not helped, and the number are threatening. Already, one in ten South Africans is HIV-positive, and as more HIV infections convert to AIDS cases, the epidemic is becoming more ...