Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a germ that causes a lifelong infection that slowly weakens the immune system. Though ...

When you have HIV/AIDS, you’re at higher risk of infections your body would normally be able to fight off. They can also be more severe, more frequent, or both. These infections are called ...

But untreated HIV, over the course of years, will harm your immune system and can lead to opportunistic infections. "Opportunistic" means they take advantage of the weaker immune system of ...

They also need to protect themselves from opportunistic infections, which are a serious threat to anyone living with HIV. HIV is a virus that attacks CD4 cells (T cells). These white blood cells ...

In this study we prospectively compare the prevalence of gastrointestinal opportunistic infections in dyspeptic versus non-dyspeptic HIV-infected patients with advanced immunodeficiency.

From two injections per year to one against HIV. "It is a hopeful step and ... at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). The trial demonstrates that medication ...

the study’s lead researcher and a professor of HIV medicine at Queen Mary University of London. Orkin, who described mpox as “an opportunistic infection” in such cases, said clinicians use ...

References Eshleman SH et al. The LEVI syndrome: characteristics of early HIV infection with cabotegravir for PrEP. Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, Seattle, abstract 160, 2023 ...

[14] Whatever the reason, HIV-infected patients with low CD4 cell counts remain at a high risk for opportunistic diseases, including gastrointestinal infections. In summary, this study has shown ...

If you are HIV+, your risk of developing an opportunistic infection increases as your CD4 count decreases ... a fungus that is the most important cause of pneumonia in people with HIV/Aids and, in ...