HIV/AIDS

Investigators at University College zero in on HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 24th, 2007

"Combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) has been shown to reduce mortality and morbidity in patients with HIV. As viral replication falls, the CD4 count increases, but whether the CD4 count returns to the level seen in HIV-negative people is unknown," scientists in London, the United Kingdom report.

"We aimed to assess whether the CD4 count for patients with maximum virological suppression (viral load <50 copies per mL) continues to increase with long-term CART to reach levels seen in HIV-negative populations. We compared increases in CD4 counts in 1835 antiretroviral-naive patients who started CART from EuroSIDA, a pan-European observational cohort study. Rate of...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2007-09-24)

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