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Information: HIV Staging

WHO Staging

WHO Stages, as used in healthQueue

Stage 1

- Asymptomatic HIV Infection

- Persistent generalised lymphadenopathy

- Performance scale: Asymptomatic, normal activity

Stage 2

- Weight loss, <10% of body weight

- Minor mucocutaneous manifestations (seborrheic dermatitis, prurigo, fungal nail infections, recurrent oral ulcerations, angular cheilitis)

- Herpes zoster within the last five years

- Recurrent upper respiratory tract infections (i.e. bacterial sinusitis)

- Performance scale: Symptomatic, normal activity

Stage 3

- Weight loss, >10% of body weight

- Unexplained chronic diarrhoea, >1 month

- Unexplained prolonged fever (intermittent or constant), >1 month

- Oral candidiasis (thrush)

- Oral hairy leukoplakia

- Pulmonary tuberculosis within the past year

- Severe bacterial infections (i.e. pneumonia, pyomyositis)

- Performance scale: Bedridden <50% of the day during the last month

Stage 4

- HIV wasting syndrome, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventiona

- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia

- Toxoplasmosis of the brain

- Cryptosporidiosis with diarrhoea >1 month

- Cryptococcosis, extrapulmonary

- Cytomegalovirus disease of an organ other than liver, spleen or lymph nodes

- Herpes simplex virus infection, mucocutaneous >1 month, or visceral any duration

- Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy

- Any disseminated endemic mycosis (i.e. histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis)

- Candidiasis of the oesophagus, trachea, bronchi or lungs

- Atypical mycobacteriosis, disseminated

- Non-typhoid Salmonella septicaemia

- Extrapulmonary tuberculosis

- Lymphoma

- Kaposi's sarcoma

- HIV encephalopathy, as defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.b

- Performance scale: Bedridden >50% of the day during the last month

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