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| Year : 2009 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 192-195 |
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HIV-associated neurosyphilis: Report of a fatal case due to fear of work-place stigma
AK Salami1, MB Isa2
1 Department of Medicine, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Ilorin-Kwara State, Nigeria
2 Department of Medicine, Federal Medical Centre, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria
Correspondence Address:
A K Salami
PO BOX 4470, Ilorin, Kwara State
Nigeria
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DOI: 10.4103/1596-3519.57248
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Syphilis and HIV infection are two STI diseases that have bidirectional influence on the clinical course of each other. There is a high risk of neurological extension if syphilis is not diagnosed early or if the patient has a co-infection with HIV. Both diseases have stigma associated with them and could affect the compliance to treatment, as was the case with this young employee of the medical department of a Nigerian tertiary hospital. He was diagnosed with HIV/ neurosyphilis co-infection and responded to penicillin therapy, but the fear of stigma at his workplace has made him to abandon hospital treatment for unorthodox therapy, which unfortunately cost him his life. |
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