What Are the Most Common Opportunistic Infections?
In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, OIs caused a lot of sickness and deaths. Once people started taking combination antiviral therapy, however, a lot fewer people got OIs. It’s not clear how many people with HIV will get a specific OI. The most common opportunistic infections in India are tuberculosis (pulmonary and extrapulmonary), oropharyngeal Candidiasis, Tinea infection of the skin, extrapulmonary TB, herpes zoster, toxoplasmosis, cryptococcal meningitis, herpes zoster, herpes simplex, pneumocystitis carinii pneumonia (PCP), cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis, and cryptosporidial diarrhoea.
