Gender differences in the neuromanifestations of HIV infected patients

Despite intensive information campaigns and education concerning the HIV infection, there is still a growing rate of new infections especially among women. Therefore, gender-specific aspects of HIV infection are of growing importance in order to evaluate the best prevention and therapy strategies. The precondition for exact investigations in this context is the knowledge about the differences in the manifestation of HIV infection between men and women. We designed a retrospective study on HIV infected men and women who had been treated in our department throughout the last years in order to investigate differenc…