{"id":10188,"date":"2010-04-02T11:22:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T11:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/?p=10188"},"modified":"2019-01-10T16:00:28","modified_gmt":"2019-01-10T16:00:28","slug":"bhiva-draft-guidelines-for-the-treatment-of-opportunistic-infections-online-for-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/10188","title":{"rendered":"BHIVA draft guidelines for the treatment of opportunistic infections (2010): online for comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 2010 British HIV Association\u00a0guidelines for the treatment of opportunistic infection in HIV-positive individuals are now posted to the BHIVA website for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Advances in the treatment of HIV infection with antiretroviral therapy have led to dramatic reductions in opportunistic infections and death.\u00a0 However,\u00a0late presentation of HIV remains a problem and is a significant contributory cause to death in HIV-positive persons in the UK.\u00a0 Furthermore, a recent UK\u00a0Health Protection Agency (HPA) analysis showed that of 46,700 patients with diagnosed HIV, 19% had CD4 counts &lt;200 cells\/mm3 and therefore remain at\u00a0significant risk of opportunistic infection.<\/p>\n<p>These guidelines have been drawn up to help physicians investigate and manage HIV-positive patients suspected of, or having an opportunistic infection\u00a0(OI).\u00a0 The early chapters consider the most common presentations of OI disease such as respiratory, gastrointestinal and neurological disease.\u00a0 Then\u00a0follow specific organisms such as Candida spp, herpes simplex virus and varicella zoster virus. Finally, special circumstances including pregnancy, the\u00a0use of the intensive care unit, fever of undetermined origin and management of imported infections, are also addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Each section contains information on the background, epidemiology, presentation, treatment and prophylaxis of OIs.\u00a0 Further information on the role of\u00a0antiretroviral therapy is also discussed (see below).<\/p>\n<p>The Guidelines Writing Group is grateful for all comments, which will be reviewed before publication.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhiva.org\">http:\/\/www.bhiva.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 British HIV Association\u00a0guidelines for the treatment of opportunistic infection in HIV-positive individuals are now posted to the BHIVA website for comment. Advances in the treatment of HIV infection with antiretroviral therapy have led to dramatic reductions in opportunistic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidelines","category-opportunistic-infections-coinfections-and-complications","category-bhiva-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}