Bacterial Infections and Antibiotic Use In People Living With HIV/AIDS

In the summer of 1981, the CDC released a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report that described Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, a rare condition, in five previously healthy young males in Los Angeles. This publication marked the first official report of what came to be known as the AIDS epidemic.¹ HIV, the cause of AIDS, primarily targets and destroys CD4+ T cells, with CD4+ T-cell measurement being a common method to categorize