• AIDS refers to the condition in which the patient develops any of 23 designated opportunistic infections:

  • Candidiasis (esophagus, trachea, bronchial tube, and lungs)
  • Cryptococcosis (except for lungs)
  • Pneumocystis pneumonia
  • Coccidioidomycosis (1. the whole body dissemination; 2. occurrences in the areas other than lungs, cervix, and hilar lymph nodes)
  • Histoplasmosis (1. the whole body dissemination; 2. occurrences in the areas other than lungs, cervix, and hilar lymph nodes)
  • Cryptosporidiosis (when diarrhea accompanies for the duration of a month or longer)
  • Cerebral toxoplasmosis (except for infants aged less than a month)
  • Isosporosis (when diarrhea accompanies for the duration of a month or longer)
  • Atypical mycobacteriosis (1. the whole body dissemination 2. occurrences in the areas other than lungs, skin, cervix and, hilar lymph nodes)
  • Purulent bacterial infections (two or more repeated occurrences of any of the following diseases due to purulent bacteria i.e., Haemophilus or Streptococcus: 1. septemia 2. pneumonia 3. meningitis 4. osteoarthritis) within two years in patients younger than 13
  • Active tuberculosis (pulmonary or extrapulmonary tuberculosis)
  • Salmonella bacillemia (relapsing; expect the ones caused by salmonella typhi)
  • Cytomegalovirus infections (except for an infant aged less than a month, and also except the one caused in the liver, spleen and lymph nodes)
  • Herpes simplex virus infections (1. lasts over a month or longer on mucous membrane 2. skin ulcerations 3. accompanied by bronchitis, pneumonia, and esophagitis, but except for infants aged less than a month)
  • Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML)
  • Kaposi's sarcoma
  • Primary CNS lymphoma
  • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (based on LSG classifications; 1. large cell immunoblastic 2. Burkitt type),
  • Invasive cervical cancer
  • Repetitive pneumonia
  • Lymphoid interstitial pneumonia/pulmonary lymphoid hyperplasia (LIP/PLH complex, under 13 years old)
  • HIV encephalopathy (dementia or subacute encephalitis)
  • HIV marasmic syndrome (whole body weakness or slim disease)