Story Highlights. The average GPA at four-year colleges and universities has risen from 2.52 in the 1950s to 3.11 in 2006. Former Duke University professor found that at some colleges over 50% of the grades given are A's.
A. A. A. AIDS wasting syndrome occurs when you have AIDS and lose at least 10% of your body weight -- especially muscle. You may also have at least 30 days of diarrhea or extreme weakness and fever that's not related to an infection.
The AIDS virus can make people more predisposed to a form of cancer called Kaposiâs Sarcoma. Unlike most cancers that tend to localize in one part of the body, Kaposi's Sarcoma tends to appear in and on several parts of the body at the same time. The primary cause is not the AIDS virus, but is exposure to Human Herpes Virus 8 (HHV8). Human Herpes Virus 8 is far more contagious than HIV, with spread possible through salvia, through breastfeeding or by exposure to infected blood products.