AIDS
From Federal Health Reporting, booklet 31 "HIV and AIDS":According to the European case-definition, AIDS refers to a defined group of illnesses that are characteristic of a progressive phase of the chronic HIV infection. The gradual destruction of the immune system results in particular life-threatening opportunistic infections and malignant tumours. Opportunistic infections refer to both newly acquired and/or reactivated infectious diseases resulting from pathogens that are widespread in the natural environment and that pose no danger for the intact immune system. Among the most frequent of these infections are: Pneumocystis Pneumonia (PcP) (pneumonia via the pathogen Pneumocystis jiroveci, previously: carinii), oesophageal candidiasis (inflammation of the esophagus via the fungus Candida albicans), and cerebral toxoplasmosis (abscesses in the brain caused by Toxoplasma gondii).
Malignant tumours include Kaposi's sarcoma (proliferations of blood-vessel cells on the skin and inner organs), B-cell Lymphoma (malignant proliferation of the B-cells of the lymph nodes, of the defence cells of the specific immune system), as well as Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) associated cervical and anal carcinomas (malignant carcinoma of the cervix, or the outside of the anus or anal canal).
Effects to the central nervous system (HIVencephalopathy) can lead to mental, vegetative, and motor failures. Wasting syndrome, and HIVdependent weight loss of more than 10% of one's body weight, associated with chronic diarrhoea or weakness and fever (HIV cachexia), can be life threatening, particularly in conjunction with other diseases.
Without therapeutic intervention, HIV disease leads to death.
Selected information about "AIDS":
Tables:
- AIDS, new cases
- Age of death (from 1998)
- Deaths, Mortality figures (from 1998)
- Diagnostic data of the hospitals (key figures of full-time inpatients)
- Diagnostic data of the hospitals by place of residence (ICD10-3-digits, from 2000)
- Diagnostic data of the hospitals by place of treatment (ICD10-3-digits, from 2000)
- HIV-positive laboratory cases
- HIV/AIDS
- Notifiable diseases (starting from 2001)
- Premature mortality (death under 65/70 years, with/without age-standardization, starting from 1998)
Texts:
Digrams:
- AIDS, new cases by region, here: Intravenous drug addicts [Line Chart]
- Age of death (from 1998) by sex, here: HIV, AIDS [Line Chart]
- HIV-positive laboratory cases, here: Intravenous drug addicts [Line Chart]
- Hospital cases by age, here: HIV, AIDS [Line Chart]
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