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November 8, 2005
HIV Makes Malaria Worse
by Staff
November 8, 2005—People living with HIV are three times more likely to develop severe malaria than HIV negatives, according to South African research published in December 1’s Clinical Infectious Diseases. HIV positive folks’ symptoms of the bug-borne disease—which plagues HIV-ravaged sub-Saharan Africa—also differed from those without HIV, and they were more likely to develop kidney failure and severe anemia.
