We report 15 cases of symptomatic HIV infection seen in Paris between June 1983 and June 1985 in Congolese patients. The first signs were diarrhea, weight loss, fever, pruritus. Disseminated lymphadenopathy was frequent. Twelve patients had AIDS, and the opportunistic infections were: isosporosis, oesophageal candidiasis, cerebral toxoplasmosis, Kaposi's sarcoma, CNS' cryptococcosis, cutaneo-mucosal.

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