Post Date July, 06 2023
It takes 0.5-20 years for human beings to become infected with HIV, with an average of 2-10 years to reach the AIDS period, which is called the incubation period or HIV carrying period in medicine. The incubation period of AIDS varies from person to person, which is related to many factors such as the number, type, route of infection, immune status, nutritional conditions and living habits of the infected virus. Among those who did not get sick for 30 years, they became AIDS virus carriers.
Generally speaking, the symptoms of viral infection in the incubation period are often not obvious, and most of them do not have typical symptoms, but the blood, semen, prostate secretion, Vaginal discharge, milk, and organs of AIDS infected people in the incubation period contain HIV, which is infectious.
The damage of AIDS to the human immune system is gradually increasing. Without treatment, the vast majority of infected people will become AIDS patients within 10 years. Generally speaking, after 6 weeks of high-risk behavior, free antibody screening is conducted at the local disease response center.
There is a lot of debate in the medical community about how long the window period is, ranging from 6-8 weeks to 3 months, with the most conservative being 6 months. The domestic consensus is that it is three months, but according to the latest research results of the clinical virus of the AIDS Prevention and Control Center of the Ministry of Health, the highest organization for AIDS prevention and control in China, the window period is 2-6 weeks.
To sum up, if you feel that you are a high-risk contact group, you should check in time. You can not judge whether you have AIDS by the relevant symptoms alone. Generally, HIV tests after 6 weeks of high-risk contact can explain the problem.
