Does malaria aids AIDS?

What is malaria? Malaria is a disease caused by a parasite that is spread by mosquitos . How then does it affect AIDS? The simple answer is that in Africa in the poorer countries where AIDS and malaria runs rampant, they run hand in hand. AIDS destroys ones immune system while increasing the odds of getting malaria. However does Malaria help one get aids. According to researchers malaria increases the amount of viral load. Thus if one was to have malaria and the HIV virus then the virus would be at a higher concentration than normal. Thus if one was to have sex then there would be more odds to give the virus to your partner. Overall malaria is just a bad combination with AIDS. This articl explains it all.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_42302.html