title: AIDS--the Baragwanath experience. Part III. HIV infection in adults at Baragwanath Hospital.
abstract: By December 1990, 181 HIV-positive black adults had been seen in the medical wards and HIV clinic at Baragwanath Hospital. Fifty per cent were in the late stage of HIV infection; 34% of those so diagnosed in 1990 have died. Equal numbers of both sexes have been seen. Their ages have ranged from 16 years to 66 years, with peak frequencies in women aged 20-29 years and in men aged 30-39 years. Tuberculosis was the commonest complicating infection, followed by acute pneumonia. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia was rare. Herpes zoster was the first sign of HIV infection in 13% of clinic patients. 'Slim disease' occurred in only 11% of patients, a much lower figure than in other parts of Africa.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Karstaedt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology