PRIMARY HIV INFECTION
* Asymptomatic ( without any symptoms )
* Acute retroviral syndrome.
CLINICAL STAGE I
* Asymptomatic
* Persistent generalized lymphadenopathy.
CLINICAL STAGE II
* Moderate unexplained weightloss (10% of presumed or measured body weight).
* Recurrent respiratory infections (respiratory tract infections, upper respiratory tract infections, sinusitis, tonsillitis, bronchitis, otitis media, pharyngitis).
* Herpes zoster.
* Minor mucocutaneous manifestations (angular chelitis, recurrent oral ulcerartion, seborrheic dermatitis, prurigo, popular pruritic eruptions, fungal fingernail infections).
CLINICAL STAGE III
* Unexplained severe weight loss.
* Unexplained chronic diarrhea for more than 1 month.
* Unexplained persistent fever for more than a month.
* Persistent oral candidiasis (thrush)
* Oral hairy leukoplakia.
* Pulmonary tuberculosis within the last 2 years
* Severe presumed bacterial infections (pneumonia, empyema, pyomyositis, bone or joint infection, meningitis, bacteremia).
* Acute necrotizing ulcerative stomatitis, gingivitis or periodontitis.
* Conditions for which confirmatory diagnostic testing is necessary.
* Unexplained anemia (hemoglobin- 8g/ dL)
* Neutropenia (neutrophils 500 cells/uL)
* Chronic thrombocytopenia (platelets 50,000 cells /uL)
CLINICAL STAGE IV
* HIV wasting syndrome as defined by the CDC.
* Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia.
* Recurrent severe or radiological bacterial pneumonia.
* Chronic herpes simplex infection (oral or genital or anorectal site) for 1 month.
* Esophageal candidiasis.
* Extrapulmonary tuberculosis.
* Kaposi’s sarcoma.
* Central nervous system toxoplasmosis.
* HIV encephalopathy.
