HIV shows a special disease course. This cours can be devided into four special stages of infection. The range of time, that every stage takes, depends on the patients and especially on the medical treatment. The variety of live expectancy is very huge. We recommend to start medical treatment as soon as possible so live as long and as normal as possible with the HI virus.

Acute HIV

Up to 90 percent of HIV infected people show the following symptoms. They appear a few days to six weeks after infection. There can be flu-like symptoms such as fever, head and neck pain, swollen lymph nodes and rash.

Asymptomatic infection (latency period)

The second phase is an asymptomatic phase about up to nine years. Nevertheless, the virus multiplies in this time and destroys the needed immune cells. Even if there are no acute HIV symptoms, the virus can be transferred by the known ways of infection.

Lymph node syndrome

About 50 percent of the infected people suffer under a lymph node swelling.

HIV-associated diseases

This stage develops around ten years after infection. If a patient shows a lot of HIV-symptoms, he suffers under AIDS.