What are the Symptoms of HIV?
• You cannot rely on symptoms to tell whether you have HIV.
• The only way to know for sure if you have HIV is to get tested.
• There are two stages of the disease: the early stage (the
clinical latency stage) and the late stage of HIV infection (AIDS).
• Some people that have HIV do not show any symptoms at all for 10 years or more.
• Symptoms some people might experience during the early stage (from a few days
to several weeks): flu-like illness, such as fever, muscle aches, night sweat, sore throat, chills, rash, swollen lymph nodes and mouth ulcers.
• Symptoms some people might experience during the late stage: rapid weight loss, recurring
fever or profuse night sweats, extreme and unexplained tiredness, prolonged swelling of the lymph glands in the armpits, groin, or neck, diarrhea that lasts for more than a week, Sores of the mouth, anus, or genitals, pneumonia, Red/brown/pink/purplish
blotches on or under the skin or inside the mouth/nose/eyelids, Memory loss, depression, and other neurologic disorders.