Comparing Cd4 Counts in Syphilitic and Non Syphilitic HIV Patients, Luwero District Uganda
Keywords:
HIV, syphilis, CD4, HAART naïve, coinfection.Abstract
Close to 12 million people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection were infected with syphilis in 2004. Most of these infections occurred in developing countries with sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia dominating. The global efforts to tackle syphilis infection are mostly aimed at pregnant women yet such kind of localized interventions leave other susceptible individuals at risk of infection leaving great public and clinical impact.
The aim of our study was to compare CD4 counts in HIV positive syphilis negative and syphilis positive Highly Active Antiretroviral therapy (HAART) na
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