cryptococcal meningitis

DNDi tackles diseases that proliferate in parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America including Dengue fever, malaria, pediatric HIV, hepatitis C, and cryptococcal meningitis.

Cryptococcal meningitis often does not have Babinski signs, so it can be hard to diagnose.

For my uncle’s particular infection – cryptococcal meningitis – there was a drug called Fluconazole.

Cryptococcal meningitis causes very severe headaches.

Instead, it leaves the body exposed to dangerous bacterial infections such as tuberculosis or pneumonia as well as fungi that can cause cryptococcal meningitis.