Epidemiology
Thailand: Epidemic Has Slowed, But AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections Have Increased
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, April 3rd, 2001
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health have found that while Thailand has mounted an effective program for preventing the sexual transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), many HIV infected persons there have progressed to full-blown AIDS. And these people with AIDS are now being diagnosed with wasting, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and other opportunistic infections that for the past several years have placed a substantial burden on the nation's health care system.
The study appears in the March 2001 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Even though few developing countries have created as effective and detailed an...
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