A new CD4 testing system, the BD FACSPresto Near Patient CD4 Counter system (BD Biosciences), enables patients to monitor their HIV/AIDS, potentially reducing the probability of transmitting the ...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) urges the World Health Organization (WHO) to call on manufacturers of vital point-of-care (POC) CD4 equipment, including Abbott ...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Please replace the release dated May 17, 2023 with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The updated release reads ...
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Associate Physician in Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Disclosure: Shahin ...
In the early decades of the global response to HIV/AIDS, the focus was on saving lives. And rightly so: without antiretroviral treatment (ART), people lived less than a year, on average, from the time ...
Close monitoring of HIV viral load is crucial to prevent LLV among HIV-positive patients on ART, particularly older adults with low CD4+ counts and a history of PI use.
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 ...