Typhoid? Aids?

Yesterday morning I was able to talk at length by phone with one of my sisters-in-law in Labe. She says she has been sick since January this year. She went to the doctor in Labe (where she also works), and he diagnosed her with typhoid fever and malaria. He also gave her a HIV test and that came back positive. He sent her to Conakry for a second test and that test was negative. However, she believes that the Conakry hospitals just produce negative tests because if they believe you have AIDS they write you off as dead.

She says that her whole body hurts and she is always very tired. She says she has no diarrhea or vomiting but she has lost a lot of weight. She can't eat any milk products like yoghurt or leaf sauces.

The doctor told her to take amoxycillin and paracetamol and two other drugs that I don't know how to spell the name for but that she gave us as Prosinide and Cinatine. The doctor also told her to eat well and avoid any really hard work. She has not been taking the medication for at least two months because she doesn't have the money. She does not know that her husband had any positive HIV test before he died in Dakar in 1999. She does say that he was not kept in the usual wardfor TB patients and she wonders about that. She wants AIDS meds NOW because she's sick and tired of being sick.