Monday, April 14, 2008

AIDS-defining conditions with laboratory evidence of HIV


• Diseases diagnosed definitively

• Recurrent/multiple bacterial infections in child <13>
• Coccidiomycosis – disseminated

• HIV encephalopathy• Histoplasmosis – disseminated

• Isosporiasis with diarrhoea persisting >1 month

• Kaposi’s sarcoma at any age

• Primary cerebral lymphoma at any age

• Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma: diffuse, undifferentiated B cell type, or unknown phenotype

• Any disseminated mycobacterial disease other than M.tuberculosis

• Mycobacterial tuberculosis at any site

• Salmonella septicaemia: recurrent

• HIV wasting syndrome

• Recurrent pneumonia within 1 year

• Invasive cervical cancer

• Diseases diagnosed presumptively

• Candidiasis: oesophagus

• Cytomegalovirus retinitis with visual loss

• Kaposi’s sarcoma

• Mycobacterial disease (acid-fast bacilli; species not identified by culture): disseminated

• Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

• Cerebral toxoplasmosis