After interruption of highly active antiretroviral therapy, 15 out of 53 patients with the X4 HIV strain had a significantly larger decrease in CD4(+) T cell count (P = 0.001) and shorter length of treatment interruption (P = 0.02) than patients with the R5 strain. At treatment resumption, HIV inferred tropism switched from the X4 strain to the R5 variant in 9 patients (60%). These patients had...

Globally there is an increase in the number of people living with HIV at an advanced age (50 years and above). This is mainly due to prolonged survival following the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy. Living with HIV at an advanced age has been shown to be associated with a number of challenges, both clinical and immunological. This minireview aims at discussing the challenges encount...

INTRODUCTION HIV positive individuals are prone to malnutrition due to inadequate dietary intake. Additionally, in low-income countries, including Nigeria, stigmatization and discrimination result in a lack of support for HIV-positive individuals ultimately contributing to even further reduced food availability and inadequate dietary intake. This study aimed to determine the nutrirional status ...

A 31 year old HIV infected woman developed neuropsychiatric problems soon after starting highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Despite modifying and subsequently stopping HAART her condition progressively worsened. Cranial magnetic resonance imaging revealed multiple areas of abnormal signal suggestive of either a vasculitis or demyelination.

we report a 27-year-old hemophilic male who was hiv positive and under highly active antiretroviral therapy (haart) along with wart lesions. when imod therapy started concurrently with haart, the skin lesions disappeared.

The purpose of the present study was to assess the relationship between the awareness of HAART, beliefs regarding transmission of HIV of persons taking HAART, norms associated with sexual risk behaviour, fear of HIV/AIDS, optimism of finding a cure or vaccine, and sexual behaviour in the general population of Sweden. A mail survey was sent to 4,000 randomly selected individuals aged 16-44 years...

widely used. Furthermore, as supportive treatment improves, patients who receive antimicrobial therapy, HAART, and/or appropriate use of colony-stimulating growth factors during the intense immunosuppressive phase of treatment are more likely to experience immunorestitution. Therefore, we expect that a greater spectrum of infecting microbes will be recognized in the setting of IRD. The aim of o...

INTRODUCTION Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) strategies include combined short-course antiretrovirals during pregnancy (Option A), triple-drug antiretroviral treament (ART) during pregnancy and breastfeeding (Option B), or lifelong ART (Option B+). The WHO also recommends ART for HIV treatment and prevention of sexual transmission of HIV. The impact of PMTCT strategies on...

In the past year, HIV treatment guidelines from high-income countries and regions such as the United States, United Kingdom and Western Europe have changed. Generally, these guidelines now recommend that HIV positive people begin HAART when their CD4+ count has fallen below 350. This is a major shift from the beginning of this century, when treatment was usually delayed until CD4+ counts fell b...