WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.525 --> 00:00:04.808 HIV is a disease that you can contract 2 00:00:04.808 --> 00:00:07.308 by body fluids, using needles, 3 00:00:09.621 --> 00:00:13.038 well, sharing needles, having unsafe sex. 4 00:00:17.171 --> 00:00:21.177 It's a disease that ruins your immune system, 5 00:00:21.177 --> 00:00:24.008 you have a certain amount of T-cells in your body, 6 00:00:24.008 --> 00:00:26.863 which are like fighting cells that help 7 00:00:26.863 --> 00:00:31.780 get rid of infections or any kind of illness that you have. 8 00:00:32.881 --> 00:00:34.577 In a normal person, I believe 9 00:00:34.577 --> 00:00:37.878 starts at 750 and it goes up to fourteen, 10 00:00:37.878 --> 00:00:40.690 but as your T-cells go down, 11 00:00:40.690 --> 00:00:43.779 a normal person would get sick 12 00:00:43.779 --> 00:00:45.586 and the T-cell level would go down 13 00:00:45.586 --> 00:00:46.753 and then after their finished being sick 14 00:00:46.753 --> 00:00:48.170 it would go right back up. 15 00:00:48.170 --> 00:00:50.800 A person with HIV the T-cells go down 16 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:53.716 and they don't bounce back up like a normal person. 17 00:00:53.716 --> 00:00:54.851 So every time you get sick, 18 00:00:54.851 --> 00:00:57.099 you're knocking down that T-cell. 19 00:00:57.099 --> 00:01:01.029 The viral load end of it, I have a non-existent 20 00:01:01.029 --> 00:01:05.439 viral load, I'm not really too sure what that means. 21 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:07.006 I'm really not. 22 00:01:07.006 --> 00:01:12.006 Something about, the viral load is what makes you sick. 23 00:01:12.407 --> 00:01:16.552 You can have no T-cells, very low T-cells, 24 00:01:16.552 --> 00:01:20.219 and a non-existent viral load in your blood, 25 00:01:21.310 --> 00:01:23.045 which will help you not get sick, 26 00:01:23.045 --> 00:01:24.695 you don't feel it as much. 27 00:01:24.695 --> 00:01:26.867 But when your viral load is high, 28 00:01:26.867 --> 00:01:30.252 that's when you get sick, to my knowledge.