[Side infection during HIV/AIDS at Trechville university health center (CHU)]

Mali Med. 2007;22(1):26-8.
[Article in French]

Abstract

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.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / epidemiology*
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • Female
  • Hospitals, University
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Young Adult