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With a significant percentage of the population living with HIV in South-Africa and who are not on HAART, patients often present to the healthcare system with advanced disease, which is associated with poorer in-hospital outcomes. In contrast, the worldwide trends for intensive care utilization among patients living with HIV shows a predominance of non-AIDS related causes as the reason for admission, rather than opportunistic infections. There is much heterogeneity in the available literature on mortality rates of HIV-positive patients admitted with severe pneumonia, with regards to disease stage, predictors of . . .
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