CD4 and viral load test results give essential information about the effect HIV is having on your body. The latest news and research on testing & health monitoring. A CD4 count tells you how many CD4 ...

Then, as your immune system responds, your viral load begins to fall and your CD4 levels start to rise again. But they won't return to pre-infection levels. Stage 2: chronic HIV infection.

In untreated patients, baseline plasma viral load accounted for only 4% to 6% of CD4-cell loss. Higher plasma viral load has been linked to increased risk for HIV disease progression in population ...

Switching HIV Treatment in Adults Based on CD4 Count Versus Viral Load Monitoring: A Randomized, Non-Inferiority Trial in Thailand. PLoS Medicine , 2013; 10 (8): e1001494 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed ...

For adults infected with HIV in Thailand a monitoring strategy based on CD4 count (a type of white blood cell) is non-inferior to the recommended monitoring strategy measuring the amount of HIV ...

Although one patient had two CD4 cell counts above 200 cells/mm 3, these measures were not consecutive and did not meet the criteria of treatment guidelines for the discontinuation of PCP prophylaxis.

Checking the viral load and CD4 T-cell count as part of the baseline evaluation, then monitoring the HIV-1 viral load as a response to treatment, is the cornerstone of HIV treatment.

A viral load that can't be detected-- less than 20 copies -- is always the goal of HIV treatment. This doesn't mean you're cured. Unfortunately, the virus is still able to survive in various cells ...

What might cause a situation in which the CD4+ cell count of an HIV-infected patient progressively rises following highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), but viral load, after an initial ...

Researchers assessed whether low CD4 count and high HIV viral load increase the risk for treatment failure among treatment-naive patients receiving first-line ART.

The viral-load trajectories while participants were receiving ART were similar in the earlier-ART group and the later-ART group, both among participants who had higher CD4+ counts and among those ...

For adults infected with HIV in Thailand a monitoring strategy based on CD4 count (a type of white blood cell) is non-inferior to the recommended monitoring strategy measuring the amount of HIV ...