The length of time you can live with AIDS depends on the severity of the disease, whether or not you receive timely and regular treatment, and the individual circumstances of the patient, and cannot be generalized.
AIDS is a sexually transmitted disease characterized by severe immunodeficiency caused by HIV infection, mainly manifesting as swollen lymph nodes, anorexia, chronic diarrhea, weight loss, fever, malaise and other systemic symptoms, and gradually developing into various opportunistic infections, secondary tumors and death. From the time of HIV infection to the development of AIDS, it can be roughly divided into acute HIV infection, asymptomatic infection and AIDS stage. Acute HIV infection usually occurs about 1-2 weeks after exposure to HIV, and various non-specific symptoms mostly disappear within 1 month. Asymptomatic infection lasts from a few months to 20 years, with an average of 8-10 years. If the patient is treated with standardized and systematic antiretroviral therapy as early as possible, most patients can stay in the asymptomatic infection period for a long time without affecting their life expectancy. Patients with untreated AIDS can die from various opportunistic infections and tumors after entering the AIDS stage, with an average survival period of 12-18 months.
AIDS is mainly transmitted through sexual contact, blood contact, and mother-to-child transmission. If there is a history of special contact, you should seek early diagnosis and active treatment after diagnosis, and take regular drugs for AIDS treatment to interrupt the infection so that the disease does not progress to the AIDS stage.