SPECTRUM OF OPPORTUNISTIC FUNGAL INFECTIONS IN HIV/AIDS PATIENTS IN TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL, JHARKHAND, EAST INDIA. [PDF]
Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Background: HIV infection continues to be a major health problem with more than millions of AIDS-related death annually. As CD4+ cell count decreases in HIV/AIDS patients, the risk of opportunistic fungal infections increases resulting in high ...
Ashok Kumar Sharma +4 more
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An ethnobotanical survey of plants used to manage HIV/AIDS opportunistic infections in Katima Mulilo, Caprivi region, Namibia [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2010 Katima Mulilo has the highest burden of HIV/AIDS in Namibia. Due to several constraints of the antiretroviral therapy programme, HIV-infected persons still use ethnomedicines to manage AIDS-related opportunistic infections. Despite the reliance on plants
Chinsembu Kazhila C, Hedimbi Marius
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Effect of Prophylaxis on the Clinical Manifestations of AIDS‐Related Opportunistic Infections [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 1998 Administration of targeted prophylaxis for AIDS-related opportunistic infections has contributed significantly to the recent decrease in mortality among patients with AIDS in the United States. Most reported prophylaxis trials have focused on determining (a) the percentage of cases prevented and (b) the effect of widespread antibiotic use on drug ...
Kent A. Sepkowitz
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Use of traditional medicines in the management of HIV/AIDS opportunistic infections in Tanzania: a case in the Bukoba rural district [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2007 Background Ethnobotanical surveys were carried out to document herbal remedies used in the management of HIV/AIDS opportunistic infections in Bukoba Rural district, Tanzania. The district is currently an epicenter of HIV/AIDS and although over 90% of the
Hosea Ken M +3 more
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Spectrum of imaging findings in AIDS-related diffuse large B cell lymphoma [PDF]
Insights into Imaging, 2020 Lymphoma in HIV-infected patients is AIDS defining. This is the second most common AIDS defining malignancy after Kaposi’s sarcoma. Development of lymphoma in HIV patients is related to immunosuppression and high viral load.
Edward Chege Nganga, Samuel Gitau
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Iron Regulation and an Opportunistic AIDS-Related Fungal Infection
PLoS Biology, 2006 Because HIV attacks the very cells charged with fighting infection, the virus compromises the body’s ability to co-exist with pathogens that are otherwise harmless. It is these pathogen-induced opportunistic infections, and not the virus itself, that produce the most debilitating effects of the disease.
Liza Gross
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Disparities in the prevalence of AIDS related opportunistic infections in Nigeria- implications for initiating prophylaxis based on absolute CD4 Count [PDF]
Retrovirology, 2012 The differences that exist between the CD4 count strata at which certain opportunistic infections occur in sub Saharan Africa suggest that targeting prophylaxis at HIV patients in this part of the world based on data generated from developed countries may be one of the reasons why there is high HIV-related morbidity in Africa.
Robert Okonkwo +4 more
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Early Antiretroviral Therapy for Patients With Acute AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of ACTG A5164 [PDF]
HIV Clinical Trials, 2010 ACTG A5164 demonstrated that early antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV-infected patients with acute opportunistic infections (OIs) reduced death and AIDS progression compared to ART initiation 1 month later. We project the life expectancies, costs, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs) of these strategies.using an HIV simulation model, we ...
Paul E. Sax +10 more
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Trends in AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections among Men Who Have Sex with Men and among Injecting Drug Users, 1991-1996 [PDF]
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1998 Incidence trends for the 13 most frequent AIDS-defining opportunistic infections (OIs) among men who have sex with men (MSM, n = 15,588) and injecting drug users (IDUs, n = 4475) were examined using data abstracted from medical records in >90 hospitals and clinics in nine US cities during 1991-1996.
Debra L. Hanson +4 more
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The Cost-effectiveness of Preventing AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections [PDF]
JAMA, 1998 Multiple options are now available for prophylaxis of opportunistic infections related to the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). However, because of differences in incidence rates as well as drug efficacy, toxicity, and costs, the role of different types of prophylaxis remains uncertain.To determine the clinical impact, cost, and cost ...
Milton C. Weinstein +6 more
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