Clinical profile of patients with Opportunistic Infections in HIV at AIMSR, Hyderabad, Telangana.

Dr. Triven Sagar Sandepogu; Dr. ArunaKumari Badam; Dr Tina Priscilla Katta; Dr Vinod Kumar K

Volume : X, Issue : V, May - 2020

Clinical profile of patients with Opportunistic Infections in HIV at AIMSR, Hyderabad, Telangana.

Dr. Triven Sagar Sandepogu, Dr. Arunakumari Badam, Dr Tina Priscilla Katta, Dr Vinod Kumar K

Abstract :

HIV is a lenti virus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that causes infection leading to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV causes progressive impairment in body’s immune system leading to increased susceptibility to uncommon pathogens and malignancies. The present statistics reveal that 37.9 million [32.7 million–44.0 million] people globally were living with HIV (end 2018). 24.5 million [21.6 million–25.5 million] people were accessing antiretroviral therapy (end of June 2019) and 1.7 million [1.4 million–2.3 million] people became newly infected with HIV (end 2018). Without treatment there is quantitative and proportional decrease in CD+4–T cell over a period of years which results in development of AIDS. Opportunistic infections are more common in patients having CD4 counts below 350 and high viral load .They are the cause of increased mortality and in certain cases the diagnostic feature of AIDS .It is very important to treat opportunistic infections before starting HAART. Timely intervention of OI’s not only helps HIV positive persons to live longer but it also helps to prevent transmission spreading to others in the community