It can take HIV symptoms years to appear—sometimes even longer—after infection. But within a month or two of HIV entering the body, 40% to 90% of people experience symptoms known as acute retroviral ...

HIV/AIDS remains a major public health threat worldwide, with an estimated 39.9 million people living with the disease at the end of 2023. Around 630,000 people died from illnesses related to AIDS the ...

These early stages of HIV infection are also known as acute HIV infection. HIV spreads throughout the body and attacks specialized white blood cells, called CD4+ T cells.

According to the CDC, people in the first stage, acute HIV infection, experience a flu-like illness within 2 to 4 weeks after infection. It can last a few weeks.

Early symptoms of HIV infection, often occurring 2-4 weeks after exposure, are often mistaken for the flu or other common illnesses. These symptoms include fever, rash, sore throat, swollen lymph ...

A rash caused by acute HIV infection typically lasts several days to weeks. HIV attacks the immune system, making you more susceptible to other infections.

A rash accompanied by swollen lymph nodes usually stems from a viral infection, such as measles, chickenpox, or mononucleosis. A rash is an inflammatory response that causes changes to your skin ...

Some experience flu-like symptoms – including fever, chills, rash, night sweats, muscle aches, sore throat, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes or mouth ulcers – within two weeks of infection. 4.

See Photo U.S. National Library of Medicine / National Institutes of Health This rash occurs in response to the initial infection by HIV, referred to as acute seroconversion. During acute ...

"Within a month or two of HIV entering the body, 40% to 90% of people experience flulike symptoms known as acute retroviral syndrome (ARS)." But sometimes HIV symptoms don’t appear for years—sometimes ...