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 ...

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 ...

Despite all the research into the benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART), clinicians are still unable to answer some of the simplest questions patients routinely ask. Among the most common: What is ...

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 ...

Among women with HIV infection, both lower CD4 counts and higher HIV RNA viral load were associated with higher incidence rates of moderate and severe cervical dysplasia, carcinoma in situ, and ...