Treatment for signs of hiv
The treatments for conditions that occur with early symptomatic HIV disease vary in effectiveness. Many would characterize a patient's level of immunosuppression by the degree and type of signs of hiv they have as well as the CD4 cell count. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have defined the presence of a long list of specific diseases or the presence of less than 200 CD4 cells per mm3 as meeting a somewhat arbitrary definition of AIDS.
The infections that happen with AIDS are called opportunistic infections because they take advantage of the opportunity to infect a weakened host. The infections include (but are not limited to) pneumonia caused by Pneumocystis, which causes wheezing; brain infection with toxoplasmosis which can cause trouble thinking or symptoms that mimic a stroke; widespread infection with a bacteria called MAC (mycobacterium avium complex) which can cause fever and weight loss; yeast infection of the swallowing tube (esophagus) which causes pain with swallowing; widespread diseases with certain fungi like histoplasmosis, which can cause fever, cough, anemia, and other problems.