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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

Higher temperature and air pollution levels linked with PCP hospitalisations among people with HIV

News
25 October 2012
Vaccinations & immunisations

US: New Pneumococcal Vaccines Recs for People Living with HIV

Editor's pick
AIDSMeds
19 October 2012
Vaccinations & immunisations

CDC Recommends Pneumococcal Vaccine Combo for Immune Compromised People

Editor's pick
HIVandhepatitis.com
18 October 2012
Health problems & ageing

Starting HIV treatment reduces the risk of serious non-AIDS-related diseases

News
9 October 2012
Opportunistic infections

Meningitis Vaccine Now Recommended for Certain HIV+ Gay Men in NYC

Editor's pick
AIDSMeds
8 October 2012
Opportunistic infections

HIV could be turning salmonella nastier

Editor's pick
New Scientist
2 October 2012
Opportunistic infections

NYC Warns of Cluster of Life-Threatening Meningitis in HIV+ Gay Men

Editor's pick
AIDSMeds
28 September 2012
HIV treatment for children & young people

Watch for cryptococcal disease in children with HIV, South African doctors warn

News
17 September 2012
Opportunistic infections

Ganciclovir Cuts CMV Organ Damage in HIV

Editor's pick
MedPage Today
13 September 2012
Opportunistic infections

ETHIOPIA: Safe water critical to health of HIV-positive people

Editor's pick
IRIN Plus News
28 August 2012
Opportunistic infections

Detectable viral load and low CD4 cell count are risk factors for shingles in HIV-positive people

News
21 August 2012
Opportunistic infections

Changing epidemiology of opportunistic infections in US: still common in inner cities

News
24 July 2012
Side effects

Diarrhoea remains a common problem in people with HIV

News
6 July 2012
Opportunistic infections

HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: cotrimoxazole prophylaxis

News
23 June 2012
Opportunistic infections

FDA Approves Foscarnet for HIV-Related CMV Retinitis, Herpes

Editor's pick
Medscape (requires registration)
11 May 2012
Cardiovascular disease

Does CMV underlie the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with HIV?

News
16 April 2012
Opportunistic infections

'Social networks' may explain high prevalence of MRSA colonization seen in patients with HIV

News
27 February 2012
Opportunistic infections

Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis reduces death rate by almost 60% in adults taking ART in low and middle-income countries

News
10 February 2012
Opportunistic infections

Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis is cost-effective for people starting ART in sub-Saharan Africa

News
10 February 2012
Opportunistic infections

First-Ever Treatment Guidelines Released for Major Cause of Death of People Living with HIV

Editor's pick
MSF
13 December 2011
Opportunistic infections

New vaccine against pneumococcal disease approved for UK

News
30 November 2011
Opportunistic infections

HIV-Infected Patients Respond Poorly to Pneumococcal Vaccine

Editor's pick
Medscape (requires registration)
4 November 2011
Improving HIV care

Free cotrimoxazole improves retention in care among adults not yet eligible for ART

News
18 August 2011
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

HPTN 052: early treatment reduces serious illness by 40%

News
18 July 2011