Fortunately, with the rise of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV in the 1990s, opportunistic infections have gone down significantly. ART does a very good job of getting your CD4 levels back up.

The Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, and others have updated guidelines for prevention and treatment of opportunistic infections in HIV-infected adults and teens.

We talk about HIV opportunistic infections. My personal and professional experience is that people don't like using the word AIDS anymore. That means I'm going to die.

Opportunistic infections are infections that occur in people with a weakened immune system. Some studies suggest that severe anemia was more common in people with HIV and either Kaposi sarcoma or ...

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 ...

Orkin, who described mpox as “an opportunistic infection” in such cases, said clinicians use the list of “AIDS-defining conditions” to manage people most at risk of dying from these ...

As it does every year, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is shining a spotlight on emerging research in HIV over the course of 4 days, this year at the Colorado ...

Oral thrush is a yeast infection that’s common in people with HIV or other conditions that suppress the immune system. Find out more about this disease, how it's treated, and more.

In a trial assessing cabotegravir for HIV PrEP, the long-acting injectable appeared to delay the detection of a small number of incident HIV infections using standard HIV testing, researchers ...

Meeting Coverage > CROI Do HIV Drug Trials Need Better Infection Tests? — Data from PrEP study reveal a sensitivity problem. by Molly Walker, Associate Editor, MedPage Today March 10, 2021 ...