HIV and COVID-19: A Tale of Two Pandemics

Title:HIV and COVID-19: A Tale of Two Pandemics

Volume: 20 Issue: 5

Author(s): Aditya Kurdekar*, Shruti Verma and Kamisetti Venkataramaniah

Affiliation:

• Department of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, Optics and Microfluidics Instrumentation, Indian Institute of Science, CV Raman Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India

Keywords: HIV, COVID-19, AIDS, SARS-CoV-2, pandemic, antiretrovirals.

Abstract: In the last 5 decades, we have witnessed two major pandemics, AIDS caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and the CoronaVirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). The emergence of COVID-19 has raised many concerns for researchers, doctors, patients, and other institutions associated with HIV. A lot of debate has persisted on clinical outcomes, the use of antiretrovirals, and vaccines on HIV patients infected with COVID-19. This note attempts to present different aspects of HIV and SARS-CoV-2 across themes like SARS-CoV-2 coinfections in people living with HIV, the psychological impact, treatments, vaccination, etc. We highlight how learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic can help us in tackling the HIV pandemic.

Cite this article as:

Kurdekar Aditya*, Verma Shruti and Venkataramaniah Kamisetti, HIV and COVID-19: A Tale of Two Pandemics, Current HIV Research 2022; 20 (5) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1570162X20666220823110435