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Anyone can contract HIV but no one should get AIDS

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: HIV can have various clinical manifestations and without treatment it can progress to AIDS and have severe complications. We have effective treatments against the infection and want to treat everyone with HIV before it progresses to AIDS. The premise for that is HIV testing. HIV infection should be on the differential when patients present with signs and symptoms not otherwise explained. We describe here two recent cases of AIDS in Icelandic women that did not have perceived risk factors resulting in a significant delay in HIV diagnosis leading to AIDS.

Source: Læknablaðið

DOI: 10.17992/lbl.2024.09.811

Authors: Katrín Hólmgrímsdóttir, Sæmundur Rögnvaldsson, Telma Ragnarsdóttir, Erna Kojic

Institutions: University of Iceland, National University Hospital of Iceland

Language: English

Topic: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4405530796