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Malaria symptoms should raise suspicion of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

Date: 28-06-2010

Screening for HIV in people who present with suspected malarial fever could identify large numbers of very recent hIV infections in countries with a high HIV burden, and could represent an effective way of integrating HIV and malaria control activities at the primary care level, especially if better point-of- care tests for diagnosing acute HIV infection can be developed, researchers report.

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