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.
If you have AIDS, the following factors can work together to promote weight loss and wasting syndrome: Not eating enough. It may be difficult to get adequate nutrition for reasons such as these: 1  Poor appetite from HIV infection. 2  Medication side effects, such as nausea, changes in taste, or mouth tingling.
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes AIDS, also causes extensive damage to the central and peripheral nervous systems. The virus can cause several different forms of neuropathy, each strongly associated with a specific stage of an active immunodeficiency disease.