Clinical profile of neurological manifestation in Human Immunodeficiency Virus-positive patients

Abstract

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is a global pandemic. According to the data released by UNAIDS in 2007, India had 2.5 million people living with HIV infection.[1] Next to sub-Saharan Africa, it has the second largest burden of HIV-related illness. Though the main targets of HIV infection are the cells of the immune system, the nervous system is often damaged during the course of infection, not only by disease processes that are secondary to immune dysfunction but also by more fundamental effects of the retrovirus.