When someone is infected with HIV the person is at risk for all kind of infections and diseases that do not normally occur with someone who is healthy. A few examples:
·        A third of the people with AIDS die of pneumonia. This is a disease that fills the lungs with fluid and makes breathing extremely difficult. Normally this disease can be treated fairly easily, but that’s not the case if someone has AIDS.
·        Many die of a form of skin cancer (Kaposi’s sarcoma). It starts as small spots, growing larger as time goes by. This cancer is difficult to treat and is most often found in men.
·        In Africa the majority of AIDS related deaths is caused by chronic diarrhoea, causing malnutrition and severe weight loss.