Acute sero conversion illness:It is seen in patients in who has been recently infected with hiv infection.The patients present with fever with chills ,headache muscle pain, joint pains and lymphnode swelling in the neck.It usually subsides on its own as the patients immunity is intact in the earl...

These symptoms are not specific to hiv.They can occur in any disease and not specific to hiv.These symptoms should prompt to get HIV TEST.If they are doing antibody test these should be repeated after 3 months for reconfirmation.

The above picture highlights the important side effects of hiv drugs .some of the older drugs like stavudine and zidovudine causes lot of side effects like vomitings and anemia, lipoatrophy and muscle wasting where as nevirapine and efavirenz causes skin rash and dizziness.The newer drugs like do...

The above picture shows how hiv virus multiplies over a period of time in the absence of hiv treatment.As you can see the number of viral copies are more on the extreme rightside of the picture clearly indicates late stage of the disease .As the viral copies are more the cd4 count would be less [...

Many patients come to us with symptoms of fever . neck swelling , headache , weight loss and loss of appetite.These symptoms can be seen in many infections like tuberculosis hepatitis and they are not specific to hiv.Hiv infected patients may not have any of these symptoms in the early stages.The...

s. Cervical, adenopathy is very common in hiv patients.Most coomon cause of lymph node swalling in hiv is tuberculosis.To know the cause of the swelling we need to do FNAC of the lympnode.The patient needs treatment with anti tb drugs and later on with anti retroviral drug

CLASSSIFICATION OF HIV DRUGSThe above picture shows the drugs used for treatment for HIV TREATMENT,The drugs are selected based onAge of the patient,The affordability of the patient ,Underlying comorbid conditions like renal disease and diabetes .Pregnancy statusALL THESE CONDITIONS ARE TAKEN IN ...