{"id":389,"date":"2008-04-09T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T15:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=389"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:30","slug":"are-these-ailments-caused-by-aids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/389","title":{"rendered":"Are hard skin and warts caused by AIDS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question. HIV weakens the immune system of a person living with the disease and makes them more vulnerable to opportunistic infections. The lower the CD4 count the higher the risk of opportunistic infections.<\/p>\n<p>I am not aware of HIV being responsible of hardening the skin around the fingers. But I am aware of viral infections of the skin like molluscum contagiosium which affects sexually active adults and is classified as a sexually transmitted infection as well as warts, which can be more extensive in people with very weakened immune systems.<\/p>\n<p>HIV doesn&#8217;t cause the warts, but your reduced immune system is less able to fight (the family of viruses responsible for warts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does AIDS cause you to have hard skin on your fingers and very small skin coloured growths that strongly resemble warts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-opportunistic-infections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}