Category Archives: Co-infections

Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk for HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and also have high levels of homelessness and unstable housing. We assessed whether...

BACKGROUND: Oropharyngeal/esophageal candidiasis are the most common opportunistic infections observed in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). While the commonly recommended treatment is fluconazole, relapse of oropharyngeal or esophageal candidiasis...

Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is the most fatal adult meningitis in patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). There is no conclusive evidence for the superiority of 1-week amphotericin B deoxycholate (AmphB)...

Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) is an obligate satellite of hepatitis B virus (HBV). HIV/HDV co-infection is associated with a high rate of hepatic decompensation events and death. We aimed to...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected persons are at a higher risk of developing Tuberculous meningitis (TBM). We aimed to estimate the prevalence of TBM-HIV co-infection. We systematically searched Pubmed/Medline, Embase and...

Key take-home messages In Canada in 2018, 63% of all HIV diagnoses among youth were attributed to gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men; similarly, in the...

OBJECTIVE: To assess poor treatment outcomes and their predictors among drug-resistant tuberculosis patients treated in Ethiopia. METHODS: Data were searched from both electronic databases and other sources. From the whole...

Background: There is plenitude of information on HIV infection among pregnant mothers attending antenatal care (ANC) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the epidemiology of HBV-HIV co-infections in the same cohort is...

Although some epidemiological studies have investigated the association between Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and the development of kidney cancer, the results are far from consistent. We conducted a systematic...

BACKGROUND: Female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) affects up to 56 million women in sub-Saharan Africa and may increase risk of HIV infection. METHODS: To assess the association of schistosomiasis with HIV...

Asymptomatic leishmaniasis is believed to play important role in maintaining the transmission of Leishmania spp. within endemic communities. Therefore, the efforts to eliminate leishmaniasis are daunting if we cannot manage...

Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has changed Mycobacterium avium epidemiology. A significant decrease in the incidence of disseminated M. avium complex: (DMAC) infection was observed between pre-cART and post-cART periods. In...