Learning Outcomes

When you have studied this session, you should be able to:

• Define and use correctly all of the key words printed in bold.
• Summarise the main features of the HIV epidemic in Ethiopia.
• Describe the basic components and functions of the immune system, and explain what HIV is and how the immune system is affected by it.
• Describe the usual course of an HIV infection and how it progresses to AIDS in the absence of effective treatment.
• Describe the modes of transmission of HIV.