Abstract

FAYAD RODRIGUEZ, Yalile. Neurophtalmologic Manifestations of AIDS. AMC [online]. 1999, vol.3, n.4. ISSN 1025-0255.

The Acquired Inmunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is mot only a problem of public health, but also a social and moral y disease which has broken the confidence in interpersonal relationships due to the risk of contagion, and has destroyed safety of modern medicine. Unfortunately we can not state yet that AIDS pandemic disease has alaudy came, but rather it is about to begin. More than 4 million patients clinically sick and 12 to 16 million of asymptomatic carriers who are estimated to live on earth, are nothing compared with the foresigths of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the year 2000? from 50 to 110 million of HIV carriers? more than 80% of then in Subsahariann Africa and Asia, who after a latency period from 3 to years would finally develop this disease.

Keywords : ADQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; NEUROLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS; OCULAR MANIFESTATIONS.

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