Measuring CD4 T-cells is important in helping healthcare providers determine the stage and possible complications of HIV infection. While they are no longer used to determine when HIV therapy should ...

July 30, 2010 (Vienna, Austria) — Although initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) against HIV is associated with a lower risk for progression to AIDS, and a lower risk for ...

Living with HIV means becoming fluent in a language of numbers that might seem confusing at first but actually hold the key to your health and future. Two numbers in particular – your viral load and ...

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 ...

CD4 T helper cells help the body fight infections by signaling other cells to attack germs. Without enough CD4 T cells, the body can't fight diseases like HIV and becomes immunocompromised. HIV ...