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Basic progression of AIDS Acute HIV infection stage Acute flu-like symptoms for about 2 weeks following infection with HIV Includes chills, fever, severe fatigue, swollen glands, rashes, diarrhea, and weight loss. Asymptomatic stage Referred to as the window period, a time when there is no symptoms present, but HIV is replicating in the blood. HIV illness stage - pre AIDS stage More damage upon the immune system and increased symptoms because individual becomes more susceptible to certain infections and cancers Recurrent flu-like symptoms, recurrent yeast or fungal infections, or reactivation of inactive tuberculosis and women may have aggressive pelvic inflammatory disease or rapidly advancing cervical cancer. Final AIDS stage HIV disease becomes AIDS when your immune system is so damaged that you have less than 200 CD4+ cells or you get an opportunistic infection or AIDS-related cancer On average it takes 7 - 10 years to develop AIDS HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), the cause of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), is an...

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