16 Signs You May Have HIV

person living with HIV/AIDS can look well. The person can continue to contribute to society and work and lead a normal life.
It is not possible to know if someone has HIV/AIDS by looking at him or her.
In fact, HIV often presents no physical symptoms. A person who is infected with HIV may thus not know that he or she has been infected.
At the point of HIV infection, a person may present with symptoms within a few weeks of infection. These symptoms are similar to other common illnesses. Some of the symptoms include:

• Fever
• Fatigue
• Rash
• Headache
• Swollen lymph nodes
• Sore throat

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Thereafter, symptoms might not show for many years.
In Singapore, most people with HIV/AIDS only find out about their HIV status at the late stage of infection, when symptoms start showing or after the person falls extremely ill.
AIDS is the end stage of HIV infection. These are some of the symptoms that may present themselves when a person develops AIDS:

• Chronic diarrhoea
• Weight loss
• Soaking night sweats
• Kaposi's sarcoma
• Cervical cancer
• Lymphoma
• Tuberculosis

When a person is infected with HIV, his or her body's defence mechanisms will start to weaken. At the end stage of HIV infection, the individual is susceptible to "opportunistic infections". These are infections caused by viruses, bacteria and fungi that are usually incapable of penetrating healthy immune systems.
One of the most common HIV-related opportunistic infection is Tuberculosis (TB), an infection which mainly affects the lungs and causes long-term cough, fever, weight loss and night sweats. An HIV-infected person whose immune system has been weakened by opportunistic infections will eventually develop AIDS.