NEUROLOGICAL CHANGES IN HIV INFECTION

Yakubova Nigina Sadriddinovna; Akhtamova Nodira Ikromovna

Authors

Yakubova Nigina Sadriddinovna
Akhtamova Nodira Ikromovna Samarkand State Medical University, Technical College of Public Health Named After Suzangaron Abu Ali Ibn Sina, Samarkand, Republic of Uzbekistan

Keywords:

HIV infection, opportunistic infections, AIDS, characteristics, prevalence, nervous system, ART.

Abstract

One of the target organs of HIV is the nervous system: only 1/10,000 of the peripheral blood lymphocytes of AIDS patients are infected with the virus, while in brain tissue HIV affects every hundredth cell. Accordingly, one of the common manifestations of HIV/AIDS is damage to the nervous system. Neurological complications of HIV infection may be caused either by the retrovirus itself or by opportunistic infections, tumors, cerebrovascular pathology, and the toxic effects of antiretroviral drugs. The article analyzes the clinical and epidemiological features of HIV infection, damage to the nervous system in AIDS, the course of opportunistic infections, and their specific treatment among the adult population of the Samarkand region.