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.
In AIDS patients, the low numbers of CD4+ T helper cells result in the inability of the body to fight these external aggressors. As a result, patients are more susceptible to diseases in the form of opportunistic infections and rare cancers. It is illness due to these life-threatening diseases that we call AIDS.