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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

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
Opportunistic infections

South Africa: Crucial HIV drug in short supply

Editor's pick
Business Day
28 June 2011
Opportunistic infections

Can a blood test show if an HIV-positive patient has PCP?

News
28 June 2011
Opportunistic infections

South Africa: HIV Breeds More Pneumonia

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AllAfrica
12 May 2011
People who inject drugs

Drug use increasingly associated with microbial infections

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Science Daily
11 May 2011
Opportunistic infections

Tracking The Evolution And Spread Of Deadly Fungus, One Of The World's Major Killers

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HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
4 May 2011
Resistance

The Ten-Year Timeline for Antibiotics Burnout

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IPS
7 April 2011
Resistance

Superbug gene rife in Delhi water supply

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The Guardian
7 April 2011
Opportunistic infections

Fall in MRSA infection in HIV patients

News
21 March 2011
Opportunistic infections

No reduction in postnatal death or illness with cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for mothers with HIV

News
24 February 2011
Opportunistic infections

Screening ART patients for cryptococcal disease is cost effective and will save lives

News
9 December 2010
Neurological & cognitive problems

Infections the main cause of CNS neurological problems in South African patients starting HIV treatment

News
8 November 2010
Cancer

Kaposi's sarcoma occurring at higher CD4 counts

News
16 September 2010
HIV treatment for children & young people

Daily cotrimoxazole better than three times weekly for infants with HIV

News
10 September 2010
Opportunistic infections

Are you ready for a world without antibiotics?

Editor's pick
The Guardian
12 August 2010
Opportunistic infections

Report of new “superbugs” emphasises ill-preparedness across Europe to meet this emerging public health challenge

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ESCMID
12 August 2010
Opportunistic infections

Prophylaxis for PCP can be stopped safely at CD4 counts above 100 in Europe

News
11 August 2010
Opportunistic infections

New 'superbug' hits UK hospitals

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BBC
11 August 2010
Opportunistic infections

Risk of IRIS means that HIV treatment should be delayed for patients taking fluconazole for cryptococcal meningitis

News
10 May 2010
Opportunistic infections

Pneumococcal vaccine offers protection to HIV-infected African adults with low CD4 counts

News
5 April 2010
Opportunistic infections

Cheap antibiotic halves risk of death in first 18 months of antiretroviral treatment

News
1 April 2010
Opportunistic infections

Vision loss affecting one in ten Ugandan people with HIV

News
8 February 2010