HIV/AIDS continued

Civic Education SS1 First Term

Week 6

HIV/AIDS continued

Performance objectives

The student should be able to:

1. Identify the symptoms and effects of HIV and AIDS

Content

Symptoms of HIV/AIDS

Many people with HIV do not know they are infected. Victims of AIDS suffer from diseases which their body system would have fought normally. The following are some of the diseases or signs that manifest when a person is diagnosed with HIV/AIDS;

1. Fever

2. Tuberculosis                               

3. Memory loss         

4. Anaemia 8.  Nausea

5. Chronic cough

6. Aching muscles and joints

7.  Chronic diarrhoea

Effects of HIV/AIDS

1. People die of the disease.

2. It leads to the reduction in the manpower as working-class people die.

3. HIV/AIDS has…