Engels spreekbeurt

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Hier is mijn spreekbeurt engels over AIDS.
Wat vinden jullie ervan.
Ook wilde ik er een stukje bij over de ontdekking van aids. Ik heb al overal gezocht maar kan niet veel vinden.


Some information

AIDS stand for: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome.
-Acquired – means that the disease is not hereditary but develops after birth from contact with a disease. (in this case, HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus).
-Immunodeficiency – means that the disease is characterized by a weakening of the immune system.
-Syndrome – refers to a group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease.


Only in the Netherlands there are 13.000 people with the HIV-virus. Worldwide there are about 36 million people suffer from HIV. And every day there are about 15.000 people who get infected by AIDS. So we can say that AIDS is a decease by which a lot of people suffer.


Infection

If you get infected with HIV, your immune system will try to fight the infection. It will make ‘antibodies’, special molecules, to fight HIV.
A blood test for HIV looks for these antibodies. If you have them in your blood, it means that you have HIV infection. People who have the HIV antibodies are called ‘HIV-Positive’.

But, being HIV-Positive, or having HIV disease, is not the same as having AIDS. Many people are HIV-Positive but don’t get sick for many years. As HIV disease continues, it slowly wears down the immune system. Viruses and bacteria that usually don’t cause any problems can make you very sick if your immune system is damaged. These are called: ‘opportunistic infections’.


How do you get AIDS

You don’t actually ‘get’ AIDS. You might get infected with HIV, and later you might develop AIDS. You can get infected with HIV from anyone who’s infected, even if they don’t look sick and even if they haven’t tested HIV-positive yet. Most people get the HIV-virus by:
-having sex with an infected person.
-sharing a needle (shooting drugs) with someone who’s infected.
-being born when their mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected woman.

!!(Getting a transfusion of infected blood used to be a way people got AIDS, but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and the risk is extremely low).


What happens if I’m HIV-Positive

You might not know if you get infected by HIV. Some people get fever, headache, sore muscles or what ever. Most people think it’s the flu. And some people have no symptoms.

The HIV-virus will multiply in your body for a few weeks or even months before your immune system responds. During this time, you won’t test positive for HIV, but you can infect other people!
When your immune system responds, it starts to make antibodies. When this happens, you will test positive for HIV.
After the first flu-like symptoms, some people with HIV stay healthy for ten years or longer. But during this time, HIV is damaging your immune system.
One way to measure the damage to your immune system is to ‘count’ your CD4 cells you have. These cells, also called ‘T-helper’ cells, are an important part of the immune system.
Healthy people have between 500 and 1500 CD4 cells in a millimeter of blood.


Treatment

When your body encounters a microorganism, your immune system mounts an attack on the invader. After the microorganism is defeated, your immune system continues to ‘remember’ how to quickly beat the invader should it try to infect you again.

A vaccine is designed to resemble a real microorganism. The vaccine trains your immune system to recognize and attack the real microorganism should you ever encounter it. If you’ve received an effective vaccine, your immune system will ‘remember’ how to quickly attack and defeat a particular microorganism for many years.

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*ik geef hieronder de tekst met de benodigde correcties weer*

Some information

AIDS stands for Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome.
Acquired means that the disease is not hereditary but develops after birth from contact with a disease. (in this case, HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus).
Immunodeficiency means that the disease is characterized by a weakening of the immune system.
Syndrome refers to a group of symptoms that collectively indicate or characterize a disease.


Worldwide there are about 36 million people suffering from HIV. 13,000 of them live in the Netherlands.
*in het Engels worden de komma en de punt voor het wergeven van getallen omgekeerd gebruikt dan in het Nederlands*
And every day there are about 15,000 people being infected by AIDS. So we can say that AIDS is a decease by which a lot of people suffer.


Infection

If you get infected with HIV, your immune system will try to fight the infection. It will make ‘antibodies’, special molecules, to fight HIV.
A blood test for HIV looks for these antibodies. If you have them in your blood, it means that you have an HIV infection. People who have the HIV antibodies are called ‘HIV-Positive’.

But, being HIV-Positive, or having HIV disease, is not the same as having AIDS. Many people are HIV-Positive but don’t get ill for many years.
*sick is Amerikaans Engels,maar kan in het Brits Engels wel in de betekenis van misselijk worden gebruikt*
As an HIV disease continues, it slowly wears down the immune system. Viruses and bacteria that usually don’t cause any problems can make you very ill if your immune system is damaged. These are called ‘opportunistic infections’.


How do you get AIDS

You don’t actually ‘get’ AIDS. You might be infected with HIV, and later you might develop AIDS. You can be infected with HIV from anyone who’s infected, even if they don’t look ill and even if they cannot be tested as HIV-positive yet. Most people get the HIV-virus by:
-having sex with an infected person.
-sharing a needle (shooting drugs) with someone who’s infected.
-being born when their mother is infected, or drinking the breast milk of an infected woman.

!!(Getting a transfusion of infected blood used to be a way by which people got AIDS, but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and the risk is extremely low).


What happens if I’m HIV-Positive

You might not know that you are infected with HIV. Some people get a fever, a headache, sore muscles or whatever.
*whatever is altijd 1 woord*
Most people think it’s the flu. And some people have no symptoms.

The HIV-virus will multiply in your body for a few weeks or even months before your immune system responds to it. During this time, you cannot be tested as HIV-positive yet, but you can infect other people!
When your immune system responds, it starts to make antibodies. When this happens, you will be tested as HIV-positive.
After the first flu-like symptoms, some people with HIV stay healthy for ten years or longer. But during this time, HIV is damaging your immune system.
One way to measure the damage to your immune system is to ‘count’ your CD4 cells you have. These cells, also called ‘T-helper’ cells, are an important part of the immune system.
Healthy people have between 500 and 1500 CD4 cells in a millilitre of blood.


Treatment

When your body encounters a microorganism, your immune system mounts an attack on the invader. After the microorganism is defeated, your immune system continues to ‘remember’ how to quickly beat the invader should it try to infect you again.

A vaccine is designed to resemble a real microorganism. The vaccine trains your immune system to recognize and attack the real microorganism should you ever encounter it. If you’ve received an effective vaccine, your immune system will ‘remember’ how to quickly attack and defeat a particular microorganism for many years.