id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-311559-vkb7a4cm Kanwugu, Osman N. HIV/SARS‐CoV‐2 coinfection: A global perspective 2020-07-28 .txt text/plain 2487 139 52 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a potentially fatal respiratory illness caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a newly identified coronavirus, which was first recognized in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China and has since rapidly spread to over 200 countries/territories/areas and have been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). 4, 6, 7 In line with this, one of the puzzling questions in the wake of this pandemic is "Does HIV infection increases the risk of getting and disease severity of COVID-19?." This is important, especially in Africa, as the region accounts for more than 70% of the global burden of human immunodefeciency virus (HIV) infection. The first case of HIV/SARS-CoV-2 coinfection was reported in Wuhan, China, the terminus a quo of the pandemic. Severe SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia in a 58-year-old patient with HIV: a clinical case report from the Republic of Cyprus ./cache/cord-311559-vkb7a4cm.txt ./txt/cord-311559-vkb7a4cm.txt