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 ...

Reducing opportunistic infections such as TB in children with HIV could save both lives and money According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 150,000 children with HIV under 15 years of age died ...

The first complete update in five years of the U.S. guidelines for preventing and treating HIV-associated opportunistic infections has been released by the National Institutes of Health and the ...

To earn CME related to this news article, click here. March 27, 2009 — The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious ...

Early diagnosis and prompt antiretroviral therapy initiation are critical for children due to the rapid progression of HIV in infants, explains Priscilla Tsondai, MD, MPH, and unlike adults they ...

Purpose: The rationale for recent changes in guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections (OIs) in HIV-infected persons is discussed. Summary: The epidemiology of AIDS has changed ...

In the early decades of the global response to HIV/AIDS, the focus was on saving lives. And rightly so: without antiretroviral treatment (ART), people lived less than a year, on average, from the time ...

Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, can produce a more severe and more deadly form of disease in people living with advanced HIV infections, researchers wrote in the Lancet medical journal on Tuesday, ...

SEATTLE -- More than half of the children who died from HIV-related illnesses in Africa were not diagnosed with HIV prior to their death, and nearly all of these deaths were preventable, data from the ...

HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. The illness known as HIV/AIDS happens in three stages: acute HIV infection, chronic HIV infection, and AIDS. But the phrase “chronic HIV infection” isn’t simply the ...