Kidney disease remains a major comorbidity of HIV infection especially in subjects of African ethnicity. HIV-associated renal disease with overt proteinuria has been associated with poorer outcomes and increased mortality. Telmisartan, an angiotensin II receptor blocker partial agonist of the PPAR-? approved for the treatment of hypertension, seems to exert a nephro-protective effect independent of blood pressure reduction in the general population. But data are lacking in HIV-positive patients with proteinuria. A case is described of an HIV-positive African patient with severe proteinuria treated with telmisartan. This therapy allowed proteinuria to be improved. This case shows for the first time that therapy with telmisartan has renoprotective effects also in an African HIV-infected patient.
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