People with AIDS find that they get infections very easily, and they often find that they have cancers and tumors as well. The most common body-wide symptoms and signs of hiv include fever (temperature above 100.4ºF or 38ºC), sore throat, headache, and muscle and joint pain. These flu-like symptoms last approximately two weeks.
The stages of HIV infection are acute infection (also known as primary infection), latency and AIDS. Acute infection lasts for several weeks and may include symptoms such as fever, lymphadenopathy (swollen lymph nodes), pharyngitis (sore throat), rash, myalgia (muscle pain), malaise, and mouth and esophageal sores. The latency stage involves few or no symptoms and can last anywhere from two weeks to twenty years or more, depending on the individual. AIDS, the final stage of HIV infection, is defined by low CD4+ T cell counts (fewer than 200 per microliter), various opportunistic infections, cancers and other conditions.
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