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 ...

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 ...

As a part of its life cycle, human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) inserts a copy of its DNA into human immune cells. Some of these newly infected immune cells can then transition into a dormant, ...

HIV scientists have long sought to unravel the mysteries of viral latency – a stealthy tactic the virus employs to evade the body's immune defenses. Recent research from the University of North ...

The results of three randomized, controlled trials (SAPiT, STRIDE, and CAMELIA) demonstrate that, for coinfected patients with advanced immunosuppression, the survival benefit of starting ART within ...

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 ...

Research into this new way of treating HIV is only beginning. When it was first named in 1983, HIV was thought to be a death sentence. The virus replicated rapidly in the people it infected because ...