Review: HIV-Plasmodium Co-infection: Malaria in AIDS patients

Pak J Pharm Sci. 2015 Sep;28(5):1811-7.

Abstract

Malaria and HIV are amongst the two main diseases worldwide and creating troubles of our time. Together, they grounds extra than four million deaths a year. Malaria causes around about for more than a million deaths each year, of which over 80-90 % come about in tropical Africa, somewhere malaria is the primary source of mortality in children below six years of age. Sideways as of adolescent, children, pregnant women are surrounded by the largest part exaggerated by the disease. In the wide geographical extend beyond in event and the follow-on co-infection, the interface flanked as a result of the two diseases visibly has foremost communal strength results. Thus both are dangerous for health at the same time.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / complications*
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / drug therapy
  • Coinfection / epidemiology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Malaria / complications*
  • Malaria / drug therapy
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications / drug therapy
  • Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination