Title: HIV associated psoriasis: epidemiology, pathogenesis and management Authors: Manuela Ceccarelli 1 , Emmanuele Venanzi Rullo 1, 2 , Mario Vaccaro 1 , Alessio Facciolà 1 , Francesco D’Aleo 1 , Ivana Antonella Paolucci 1 , Serafinella Patrizia Cannavò 1 , Bruno Cacopardo 3 , Marilia Rita Pinzone 2,3 , Giovanni Francesco Pellicanò 4 , Fabrizio Condorelli 5 , Giuseppe Nunnari 1 , Claudio Guarneri 6 Affiliations: 1 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Messina, Messina, Italy 2 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 3 Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania, Catania, Italy 4 Department of Human Pathology of the Adult and the Developmental Age “G. Barresi”, University of Messina, Messina, Italy 5 Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Università del Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”, Novara, Italy 6 Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho Functional Imaging, University of Messina, Messina, Italy Corresponding Author: Giuseppe Nunnari, MD Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Messina Via Consolare Valeria, 1, 98124 Messina (ME) 0039 090 221 2065 gnunnari@unime.it Accepted Article Accepted Article This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article has been accepted for publication and undergone full peer review but has not been through the copyediting, typesetting, pagination and proofreading process, which may lead to differences between this version and the Version of Record. Please cite this article as doi: 10.1111/dth.12806