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.
Infectious Knowledge. AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, is an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus. AIDS is characterized by the appearance of opportunistic infections such as tuberculosis, fungal infections, meningitis, and syphilis.Weight loss and wasting are also effects of AIDS.here is no cure for AIDS, but there are drugs that can treat the symptoms and infections that go along with the disease. As the AIDS epidemic grew unabated in the United States, numerous cases appeared in Europe, South America, and Africa.