Vaccinations in HIV infection

BCG reactions in HIV-positive and HIV-negative children have been compared in African children. The rates of local adenitis were equal (104,105). These results have been confirmed by a number of other studies, among them one in Haiti. The Haitian investigators found that the risk of complications after BCG vaccination in HIV-infected children is low and that the risk does not outweigh the benefits of BCG vaccination in populations at high risk of tuberculosis during infancy and childhood. Mild or moderate adverse effects occurred in 19 (9.6%) of 166 infants born to HIV-seronegative mothers as compared with 4 (31%) of 13 HIV-infected infants (106). 

BertoUni DV, Costa LS, van der Heijden IM, Sato HK, de Sousa Marques HH. Immunogenicity of a meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine in HIV-infected children, adolescents, and young adults. Vaccine 2012 30(37) 5482-6. 

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