After HIV enters a person’s body the person may show no signs and symptoms of AIDS for 5 to ten years. As the person’s immune system starts failing, signs and symptoms of develop. These can be:
- Weight loss greater than 10 percent of the body weight.
- Fever for longer than one month.
- Diarrhoea for longer than one month (on and off or all the time).
- Persistent fatigue. However, there are so many different causes of fever, headache, and diarrhoea and weight loss.
So there is no cause to worry. But, if one has had unprotected sex with many people or with a person who has had many sexual partners, or if one has shared needles while injecting drugs, or has been given HIV infected blood one, it is advisable to go to a recognized testing center( Integrated Counseling and Testing Center) , and get oneself tested for HIV.
