Man develops HIV infection one year later.
“On World AIDS Day, experts remind us to take action and move towards ‘zero’ AIDS.
According to the natural evolution of AIDS, there is generally an incubation period of 2 to 10 years from infection to disease onset, but Mr. Zhang, now 40 years old, was tested for HIV and developed the disease only one year apart. Why such a rapid progress of AIDS?
As an “addict”, Mr. Zhang has been injecting heroin intravenously through unclean needles for a long time, and has been receiving free national AIDS screening for high-risk groups every year for nearly a decade. Not long ago, Mr. Zhang was sent to Wuhan Medical Treatment Center by 120 emergency, and was diagnosed with systemic disseminated tuberculosis, tuberculous meningitis, blood-borne tuberculosis, and liver tuberculosis, and his CD4 cell count dropped to 30 cells/ul on recheck, and AIDS had entered the pathogenic stage according to diagnostic criteria.
“AIDS and tuberculosis promote each other’s lesion progression and deterioration, rapidly leading to the patient’s death.” Wuhan medical rescue center Wuhan AIDS expert group leader Zhang Li director: “HIV (HIV) invasion of the human body, so that the body’s immune system ‘full collapse’, so that the body in a serious state of immune deficiency, complete loss of self-defense defense capacity, for TB invasion of the human body China is a large country with tuberculosis, so tuberculosis and AIDS are in cahoots.”
The majority of the general population is infected with TB in a latent state of infection that does not develop, and there is only a 10% chance of progression to active TB disease over a lifetime; while HIV-infected patients infected with TB have a 10% chance of progression to active TB disease each year, and that chance increases as the patient’s immune deficiency continues to worsen.
As the number of HIV patients increases, Director Zhang Li reminds everyone to be clean, stay away from drugs and use condoms to avoid HIV infection and thus reduce the chances of getting TB. HIV carriers are even more important to strengthen the prevention and screening of TB infection, early detection and timely treatment to delay the onset of AIDS and reduce the risk! Take action and move towards ‘zero’ AIDS!