objective: studies have identified high prevalence of depression among people living with hiv/aids, but only few studies have looked into this association in this environment. the objectives were to determine the prevalence of major depressive disorder, associated socio-demographic and psychosocial variables in people living with hiv/aids attending an out-patient clinic at the olabisi onabanjo ...

Objective: In developing countries like India, the fatality rate of tuberculosis (TB) coinfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is still at high and imposes significant challenge among physicians. The present study was conducted to evaluate management outcomes combined antiretroviral therapy (ART) chemotherapy or cotrimoxazole preventive (CPT) in TB/HIV co-infected patients. Methods: o...

background and objective: patients with thalassemia major have an abnormality in hemoglobin synthesis and ineffective hematopoiesis and for this reason with respect to disease severity should receive one or more fresh blood unit every 15-30 days. since transfusion of blood products has been known as one of the routes of hiv infection, therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the prevalen...

Our objective was to analyze the evolution of resistance mutations (RM) and viral tropism of multi-drug-resistant (MDR) strains detected at primary HIV-1 infection (PHI). MDR HIV strain was defined as the presence of genotypic resistance to at least 1 antiretroviral of the 3 classes. Tropism determinations (CCR5 or CXCR4) were performed on baseline plasma HIV-RNA and/or PBMC-HIV-DNA samples, th...

Primary Breast lymphoma is a rare lesion that has been reported in patients without HIV. However, Primary Breast lymphoma occurring in a patient with HIV has rarely been reported despite the fact that HIV infection is known to increase the propensity to develop certain types of lymphoma. We report a case of an HIV patient with breast lymphoma that was discovered by screening mammography while p...

Introduction: Hypercalcemia referred as serum calcium level over two standard deviations above the average mean values. Clinical manifestations may be due to hypercalcemia or causal disorder both. disorders can caused by group of illness/abnormalities. Cases Presentation: A-5 year-4 months old girl was taken hospital with chief complaint fatigue and shortness breath. Patient also complained dec...

background the picture that has emerged from studies investigating hiv infected people with gbv-c viremia is that they have lower plasma hiv viral loads in comparison with hiv-positive people who did not have the gbv-c viremia. objectives since gbv-c hiv coinfection has not been studied in iran, we have designed a survey to study the outcomes of gbv-c infection on hiv infected individuals. pati...

Long-acting (LA) cabotegravir/rilpivirine (CAB/RPV) is a complete regimen for the management of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection to replace their oral antiretroviral therapy (ART) when they have been virologically suppressed. We present case successful achievement undetectable HIV RNA viral load levels in an acquired syndrome (AIDS) patient with long-standing virologic fail...

Syphilis has been re-emerging around the world, especially in MSM and people living with HIV. Because of high number infections, complications disease that were previously rare, now appear again. Otosyphilis is one them. We reported a case 31-year-old patient, HIV-positive, sudden hearing loss both ears tinnitus due to syphilis. This first otosyphilis detected Vietnam. The diagnosis may be dela...