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  • The purpose of this article is to enhanced our knowledge in diagnosis and treatment of peripheral neuropathies in Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) patients.Peripheral neuropathies are common in HIV infection. Symptomatic neuropathy occurs in approxymately 10-15% of HIV infected patients overall. Peripheral neuropathies are complex and diverse, complicate all stages of the HIV disease and cause considerable morbidity and disability in HIV-infected individuals and AIDS patients. There are major clinical types of HIV-associated neuropathies, Seroconversion-related neuropathies, Distal Sensory Polyneuropathy (DSP), acute and chronic inflammatory demyelination polyradiculomyelopathy and nucleoside associated toxic neuropathies. Distal sensory polyneuropathy occurs approximately 30% of patient with a CD4 cell count at below 200/?L. Due to many disease associated with HIV management and treatment of the patient is depend on clinical presentasion, diagnosis and degree of HIV disease, we will discuss these various complication according to the degree of HIV disease.