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1985 World Health Organization AIDS surveillance case definition



The 1985 World Health Organization AIDS surveillance case definition was developed in October 1985, at a conference of public health officials including representatives of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organization (WHO) in Bangui, Central African Republic. For this reason, it became to be known as the Bangui definition for AIDS. It was developed to provide surveiling case definition of AIDS for use in countries where testing for HIV antibodies was not available.

It stated the following:

Exclusion criteria

  1. Pronounced malnutrition
  2. Cancer
  3. Immunosuppressive treatment
Inclusion criteria with the corresponding score Score
Important signs
Weight loss exceeding 10% of body weight4
Protracted asthenia4
Very frequent signs
Continuous or repeated attacks of fever for more than a month3
Diarrhoea lasting for more than a month3
Other signs
Cough2
Pneumopathy2
Oropharyngeal candidiasis4
Chronic or relapsing cutaneous herpes4
Generalized pruritic dermatosis4
Herpes zoster (relapsing)4
Generalized adenopathy2
Neurological signs2
Generalized Kaposi's sarcoma12

The diagnosis of AIDS is established when the score is 12 or more.

Revision

The 1985 WHO AIDS surveillance case definition was heavily criticised, for both medical and political reasons. The 1994 expanded World Health Organization AIDS case definition was introduced in 1994 to incorporate the statement that HIV testing should be done. However, if testing was unavailable, then the Bangui definition should be used.

References

  • Source:HIV infection and AIDS in the developing world
 
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