A 45-year-old active substance user began getting medical care in your clinic in 1997. He had started taking antiretrovirals (nelfinavir + Combivir) at another facility. Initial labs showed an ...

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 ...

Daily administration of a cheap, widely available, antibiotic (co-trimoxazole) as prophylaxis halves mortality in severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected adults starting treatment in Africa; with ...

Both clinical experience and clinical trial data now provide sufficient evidence to warrant recommendations to discontinue primary and secondary prophylaxis for specific OIs. Although immune ...

Prophylaxis against mycobacterium avium-intracellulare complex (MAC) is recommended for patients with CD4 counts of 3. This article is written live from ID Week 2017 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.

CD4 counts show how strong your immune system is; lower counts mean a weaker immune response. The CD4 percentage shows what part of your white blood cells are CD4 cells and helps check how strong your ...

HIV viruses infecting T-lymphocytes, computer illustration. The surface of the T-cell has a lumpy appearance with large irregular surface protrusions. Smaller spherical structures on the cell surface ...

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 ...

Immunocompromised populations develop a lower immunogenic response to COVID-19 vaccines, leaving them at a higher risk of severe disease, hospitalization, and death. Patients with HIV who have low ...

What Is the CD4:CD8 Ratio Test Used For? CD4 and CD8 are two types of white blood cells in your blood. White blood cells help your body fight infections. If you have HIV infection, your doctor may use ...

The risk of transmitting HIV to infants during breastfeeding can be halved with a triple-drug regimen taken by mothers. These findings indicate that prophylaxis* with a three-drug regimen can safely ...