Global: Half million deaths from cryptococcal meningitis a year in people with HIV

Researchers have estimated that there were about one million infections and a half a million deaths from HIV-related cryptococcal meningitis worldwide in 2006. The findings published in the February 20th edition of the journal AIDS also show that sub-Saharan Africa had the highest global burden of cryptococcal meningitis among people living with HIV. The scientists (led by Benjamin J. Park of the US Centers for Disease Control) did the study because although although cryptococcal meningitis is one of the most widely reported HIV-related opportunistic infections, the global burden is