medicine

1. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago…”
-Warren Buffett
WHO AIDS STAGING
Primary HIV infection
Asymptomatic
Acute retroviral syndrome
Clinical Stage 1
Asymptomatic
Persistent generalized lymphadenopathy
Clinical Stage 2
PUSH-FAR
P​apular pruritic eruptions
U​nexplained moderate weight loss (<10% of presumed or measured body weight)’
S​eborrhoeic dermatitis
H​erpes zoster
F​ungal nail infections
A​ngular Cheilitis
R​ecurrent respiratory tract infections (sinusitis, tonsillitis, otitis media, pharyngitis)
R​ecurrent oral ulceration
Clinical Stage 3
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U​nexplained 2 servere weight loss (>10% of presumed or measured body weight)
U​nexplained chronic diarrhoea for longer than one onth
U​nexplained persistent fever (above 37.5OC intermittent or constant for longer than one month)
U​nexplained anaemia (<8 g/dl), neutropenia (<0.5 x 109/litre) and or chronic thrombocytopenia
(<50 x 109/litre3
S​evere bacterial infections (e.g. pneumonia, empyema, pyomyositis, bone or joint infection,
meningitis, bacteraemia)
A​cute necrotizing ulcerative stomatitis, gingivitis or periodontitis
- Non nobis solum nati sumus
- (​Not for ourselves alone are we born​)
- -Dr. Eashan Srivastava

2. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago…”
-Warren Buffett
P​ulmonary tuberculosis
O​ral candidiasis
O​ral hairy leukoplakia
Clinical Stage 4
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Symptomatic HIV-​​A​ssociated ​nephropathy​​ /symptomatic HIV – associated ​​ cardiomyopathy​/​
HIV ​wasting​​ syndrome/HIV ​​encephalopathy
B​​acteria - Recurrent severe bacterial pneumonia
Recurrent septicaemia (including non-typhoidal salmonella)
C​​MV infection (retinitis or infection of other organs)
C​​NS toxoplasmosis
Extrapulmonary ​ ​C​ryptococcosis including menigitis
Atypical ​ ​D​isseminated leishmaniasis
D​iarrhea (Cryptosporidium, Isospora)
E​​sophageal candidiasis (or candidiasis of trachea, bronchi or lungs)
E​​xtrapulmonary tuberculosis
Disseminated ​ ​F​ungal infection (extrapulmonary histoplasmosis, coccidiomycosis)
G​​hanta kuch nhi
Chronic ​ ​H​erpes simplex infection (orolabial, genital or anorectal of more than one month’s
dura-
tion or visceral at any site)
I​​nvasive cervical carcinoma
Pneumocystis ​ ​J​iroveci pneumonia
- Non nobis solum nati sumus
- (​Not for ourselves alone are we born​)
- -Dr. Eashan Srivastava

3. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago…”
-Warren Buffett
J​C Virus (PML)
K​aposi sarcoma
L​ymphoma (cerebral or B cell non Hodgkin)
M​ycobacteria ​N​on Tubercular (Disseminated)
- Non nobis solum nati sumus
- (​Not for ourselves alone are we born​)
- -Dr. Eashan Srivastava