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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

Back to the future with CD4 testing: Improving HIV care in low- and middle-income countries

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Science Daily
16 January 2019
Opportunistic infections

HIV-Positive Patients at Higher Risk of Late Mortality Following Cryptococcal Infection

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Contagionlive.com
4 October 2018
Opportunistic infections

Uganda: No More Septrin for Aids Patients - Government

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AllAfrica
4 September 2018
Access to healthcare

Price cut on medicine will help preserve the health of more people living with HIV

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UNITAID
11 June 2018
Opportunistic infections

Integrase inhibitors do not raise risk of IRIS in severely immunocompromised people

News
27 March 2018
Opportunistic infections

Raltegravir-Intensified ART: More Rapid Declines in HIV Viral Load But No Impact On IRIS

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Contagion Live
13 March 2018
Opportunistic infections

Deadly cryptococcal fungi found in public spaces in South Africa

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Science Daily
8 December 2017
Opportunistic infections

HIV: MSF concerned by high numbers of AIDS deaths in sub-Saharan Africa

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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
25 July 2017
Opportunistic infections

Improved treatment for cryptococcal meningitis in HIV could save thousands of lives – if generic drug becomes available

News
24 July 2017
Opportunistic infections

WHO recommends package of tests, treatment and prevention for 'urgent need' people with HIV with low CD4 counts

News
23 July 2017
Lung disease

People with HIV have impaired respiratory health, even when viral load is undetectable

News
23 May 2017
Opportunistic infections

Integrase inhibitors may increase risk of IRIS in late presenters for HIV treatment

News
1 March 2017
Opportunistic infections

Pneumococcal infections decrease in patients with suppressed HIV

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Healio
8 November 2016
Opportunistic infections

A detectable CMV viral load could signal a high risk of mortality in older individuals hospitalised with HIV-associated TB

News
9 August 2016
Opportunistic infections

Package of prophylaxis against infections reduces the risk of death for people starting HIV treatment very late

News
8 August 2016
Starting treatment

WHO confirms antiretroviral therapy reduces the risk of life-threatening HIV-related infections

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World Health Organization
22 June 2016
Opportunistic infections

Cryptococcal meningitis: a blind spot in curbing AIDS

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The Lancet (requires free registration)
15 April 2016
Opportunistic infections

ART has averted over 850,000 HIV-related opportunistic infections in low and middle income countries

News
21 March 2016
Opportunistic infections

HIV-related wasting can have long-term consequences

News
30 November 2015
Improving HIV care

High standards of care associated with reduced mortality risk of patients with HIV

News
28 September 2015
Opportunistic infections

New approach to HIV management in Tanzania and Zambia reduces deaths by almost one-third

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Eurekalert Medicine & Health
11 March 2015
Opportunistic infections

Stopping cotrimoxazole during antiretroviral therapy raises risk of bacterial illness, malaria, Ugandan trial shows

News
26 February 2015
Organ transplants

Patients with HIV can safely receive kidneys from deceased HIV-positive donors, with good five-year survival rates

News
16 February 2015
Opportunistic infections

Pneumonia risk far higher for HIV-positive children, study shows

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Science Daily
7 January 2015