At presentation, all children living with HIV younger than five years should be considered as having advanced HIV disease ...

A panelist discusses how CD4 counts serve as measures of immune system status that typically increase by about 200 in the first year of antiretroviral therapy. Although there can be laboratory ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has strongly recommended CD4 testing as the preferred method for identifying advanced HIV disease among people living with HIV, as part of its newly released 2025 ...

CD4 tests is strongly recommended as the preferred method to identify advanced HIV disease among people living with HIV, said the WHO.

A single center letter describes lung transplantation in people living with HIV despite CD4 counts under 200 during evaluation, emphasizing prior viral suppression and clinical context when assessing ...

The decrease in CD4 cells during HIV infection seems to be driven by immune activation, which does not always correlate with viral load. Experienced clinicians are all too familiar with the ...

Research into this new way of treating HIV is only beginning. When it was first named in 1983, HIV was thought to be a death sentence. The virus replicated rapidly in the people it infected because ...

There are currently ~38 million people worldwide living with HIV. If left untreated, HIV infection progresses to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) where patients become extremely vulnerable to ...

Advancements in HIV/AIDS research, drug development and clinical practice since the 1980s have made it possible for people living with HIV to lead long, productive lives and keep the virus in check at ...