Manaing HIV. Part 5: Treating secondary outcomes. 5.17 HIV, weight loss and wasting syndrome.
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Abstract
Weight loss in HIV infection can be severe and distressing. Management must address the likely combination of causes by excluding opportunistic infection, monitoring drug effects, palliating diarrhoea, supporting a healthy diet and using drug therapy to improve appetite or weight gain.