[Side infection during HIV/AIDS at Trechville university health center (CHU)].
To highlight the main sides infections and their progress with HIV sick people selected in the inner health department of the CHU of Treichville, Abidjan, a retrospective survey was carried out from the files of sick people over 30 months of period; from January 1, 1999 through July 15, 2001. 279 patients (143 males and 136 females) where involved; 382 side infections where found out and the most frequent were: tuberculosis (28.3%), fungous infection (26.7%), gastro-enteritis.7%) and brain toxoplasmosis (15%). The lethal rates were respectively 16.6% for tuberculosis, 51.6 for gastroenteritis, 66.7% for neuro-meningeal Cryptococcus and 68.1% for brain toxoplasmosis. The impact of side infections on the progress of HIV/AIDS requires a preventive type of rallying as therapeutic progress is still unreachable for developing countries, which are the most affected by the HIV epidemics.
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Service de Médecine Interne du CHU de Treichville, Abidjan.
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D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D007560:Cote d'Ivoire; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult