A reflection on hiv/aids research

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome is a disease caused by immune deficiency virus.HIV spread through certain body fluids that attack the body's immune system, specifically CD4 cells, often called T cells. Over time HIV can destroy so many of these cells that the body can't fight off infections and disease. these special cells help the immune system fight off infections. Untreated, HIV reduces the number of CD4 cells (T cells) in the body. This damage to the immune system makes it harder and harder for the body to fight off infections and some other diseases. Opportunistic infections or cancers take advantage of a very weak immune system and signal that the person has AIDS.
The disease was first brought to the attention of the general medical community in June 1981, when the centers for Disease Control and prevention five California men with severe immunodeficiency in the morbidity and mortality weekly report. The HIV infections  leads to compromise immune system and patients become more vulnerable for many other infections as well. There has been nearly 30 years for the discovery of HIV and associated immune disease ie AIDS and very little therapeutics is available to combat AIDS In fact, it is very difficult to diagnose HIV infection as it remain dormant stage inside immune cell and our available diagnostic methods are ineffective to diagnose in early days of infection