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HIV Clinical stage 4

  • HIV wasting syndrome (weight loss >10% body weight plus unexplained chronic diarrhoea or chronic weakness and unexplained prolonged fever (> 1 month).

  • Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

  • Toxoplasmosis of the brain

  • Cryptosporidiosis with diarrhoea for > 1 month

  • Extrapulmonary cryptococcosis

  • CMV infection of an organ other than liver, spleen or lymph nodes

  • Herpes simplex virus infection, mucocutaneous > 1 month, or visceral (any duration)

  • Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

  • Any disseminated endemic mycosis

  • Candidiasis of the oesophagus, trachea, bronchi or lungs

  • Disseminated atypical mycobacteriosis

  • Non-typhoidal Salmonella septicaemia

  • Extrapulmonary tuberculosis

  • Lymphoma

  • Kaposi’s sarcoma

  • HIV encephalopathy

  • And/or performance scale 4: bed-ridden >50% of the day during last month.

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