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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks Topic: Opportunistic infections

Opportunistic infections are infections that occur more frequently in people with advanced HIV disease, including tuberculosis, cryptococcal meningitis, pneumonia and toxoplasmosis.

Opportunistic infections

In-depth: Critical medicine priced out of reach for people with cryptococcal meningitis

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Spotlight
25 April 2022
Opportunistic infections

New guidelines from WHO recommend a simpler, safer treatment for cryptococcal disease in people living with HIV

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World Health Organization
21 April 2022
Opportunistic infections

Fungal infections cause more Aids deaths than tuberculosis – here's what we can do about it

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The Conversation
10 February 2022
How HIV works

ACTG Announces Initiation of A5355, Clinical Trial Studying New CMV Vaccine

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ACTG Network
17 December 2021
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Uncontrolled HIV causes the majority of deaths in children with HIV in western Kenya

News
14 December 2021
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

High mortality of people living with HIV in Thailand highlights the need for early diagnosis and treatment

News
9 November 2021
Opportunistic infections

Improved treatment for cryptococcal meningitis, a leading cause of death in people with HIV

News
26 July 2021
Access to healthcare

HIV: Breakthrough in cryptococcal meningitis gives Gilead opportunity to fulfil promise to scale up access to key drug

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MSF
22 July 2021
Treatment guidelines

WHO publishes new Consolidated HIV guidelines for prevention, treatment, service delivery & monitoring

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World Health Organization
17 July 2021
Opportunistic infections

In Focus: Global strategy to end Cryptococcal Meningitis in people living with HIV

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Spotlight
8 June 2021
Opportunistic infections

People with HIV are still dying from a treatable, but neglected, disease: all it needs is a plan

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The Conversation
15 May 2021
Nutrition

US: HIV-Associated Wasting Remains Prevalent Despite Antiretroviral Therapy

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Contagion Live
22 February 2021
Opportunistic infections

Toxoplasmosis, AIDS-defining brain parasite, spread from cats rarely gets humans sick – here's why

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Jerusalem Post
31 July 2020
Opportunistic infections

Opportunistic infections remain common in people taking HIV treatment in Latin America

News
7 July 2020
Low CD4 count

Study shows a 70% decline in baseline CD4 testing in Uganda over six years

News
10 June 2020
Opportunistic infections

High death rate for HIV-associated meningitis reported in African hospitals

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Avert
22 February 2020
Opportunistic infections

‘No benefit’ in giving HIV-exposed babies co-trimoxazole, study finds

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Avert
25 November 2019
Lung disease

Rates of pneumonia and pneumococcal disease remain high among people with HIV

News
19 November 2019
Access to healthcare

People living with HIV are dying because a medicine is not registered in South Africa

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Daily Maverick
29 August 2019
TB epidemiology

TB clusters show where HIV treatment is missing in South Africa

News
27 August 2019
Opportunistic infections

Gilead fails to keep promise on access to lifesaving drug for people living with HIV

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Médecins Sans Frontières
1 July 2019
Opportunistic infections

A considerable percentage of deaths in HIV patients are due to cryptococcal infections

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
22 May 2019
Opportunistic infections

A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy

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New York Times
8 April 2019
Opportunistic infections

Study: AIDS-immunocompromised populations see more antibiotic-resistant infections

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Eurekalert Inf Dis
27 March 2019