{"id":13610,"date":"2026-01-29T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=13610"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:05:17","slug":"human-immunodeficiency-virus-misdiagnosis-in-a-patient-presenting-with-clinical-features-of-aids-in-malawi-a-case-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/?p=13610","title":{"rendered":"Human Immunodeficiency Virus Misdiagnosis in a Patient Presenting with Clinical Features of AIDS in Malawi: A Case Report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mictum Miggo<sup>1<\/sup>, Innocent Khuliwa<sup>1<\/sup>, Denilson Eugenio<sup>1<\/sup>, Mathews Saindi<sup>1<\/sup>, Thokozani Nankhonya<sup>1<\/sup>,<br>Richard Kamalizeni<sup>1<\/sup>, Emma Kamoto<sup>1<\/sup>, Felistus Kazingatchire<sup>1,3<\/sup>, Patience Chikuse1, Hamstone<br>Lwesha<sup>4<\/sup>, Johnstone J. Kumwenda<sup>2<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>St. Joseph\u2019s Mission Hospital \u2013Nguludi, Malawi<\/li><li>Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi<\/li><li>Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Malawi<\/li><li>Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi<br><strong>*Corresponding Author<\/strong>: Mictum Miggo; E-mail: mictummiggo@live.com<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong><br>A 27-year-old man presented with a history of weight loss and generally feeling unwell for more than 2 years. He had several negative HIV rapid tests. His wife had a positive HIV test in 2023 during screening while she was pregnant with their first child. When HIV RNA test was requested, it was positive with a viral load of 1,740, 000 copies\/ml. In patients in high HIV prevalence settings suspected to have HIV infection with repeated negative rapid antibody diagnostic tests, HIV RNA testing should be requested to exclude infection.<br><strong>Key words<\/strong>: Human Immunodeficiency Virus, misdiagnosis, false negative HIV antibody tests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Mictum-Miggo.pdf\">DOWNLOAD PDF<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mictum Miggo1, Innocent Khuliwa1, Denilson Eugenio1, Mathews Saindi1, Thokozani Nankhonya1,Richard Kamalizeni1, Emma Kamoto1, Felistus Kazingatchire1,3, Patience Chikuse1, HamstoneLwesha4, Johnstone J. Kumwenda2 St. Joseph\u2019s Mission Hospital \u2013Nguludi, Malawi Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Malawi Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi*Corresponding Author: Mictum Miggo; E-mail: mictummiggo@live.com AbstractA 27-year-old man presented with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[138],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13611,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13610\/revisions\/13611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmj.mw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}