Published: http://www.thebody.com Preventing OIs Most of the germs that cause OIs are quite common, and you may already be carrying several of these infections. You can reduce the risk of new infections by keeping clean and avoiding known sources of the …Read & Discuss →

Published: http://www.thebody.com What Are the Most Common OIs? In the early years of the AIDS epidemic, OIs caused a lot of sickness and deaths. Once people started taking strong antiretroviral therapy (ART), however, a lot fewer people got OIs. It’s not …Read & Discuss →

Published: http://www.thebody.com/index.html Testing for OIs You can be infected with an OI, and “test positive” for it, even though you don’t have the disease. For example, almost everyone with HIV tests positive for Cytomegalovirus (CMV). But it is very rare for CMV disease to develop …Read & Discuss →

Published: http://www.thebody.com/index.html What Are Opportunistic Infections? In our bodies, we carry many germs — bacteria, protozoa, fungi, and viruses. When our immune system is working, it controls these germs. But when the immune system is weakened by HIV disease or by …Read & Discuss →