When you have HIV/AIDS, you’re at higher risk of infections your body would normally be able to fight off. They can also be more severe, more frequent, or both. These infections are called ...

Purpose: The rationale for recent changes in guidelines for the prevention of opportunistic infections (OIs) in HIV-infected persons is discussed. Summary: The epidemiology of AIDS has changed ...

Daily administration of a cheap, widely available, antibiotic (co-trimoxazole) as prophylaxis halves mortality in severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected adults starting treatment in Africa; with ...

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 ...

Ascending dose trials of the safety and tolerability of Toca 511, a retroviral replicating vector encoding cytosine deaminase, in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma. Chemotherapy plus ...

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 ...

What Is the CD4:CD8 Ratio Test Used For? CD4 and CD8 are two types of white blood cells in your blood. White blood cells help your body fight infections. If you have HIV infection, your doctor may use ...

Decades after its discovery, the emerging view of idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia (ICL) -- popularly dubbed "AIDS without HIV" -- is that it may be more homogeneous than originally thought, despite ...

SEATTLE -- Among people living with HIV, a severe form of mpox in the context of immunosuppression appeared to lead to complications and even death, according to a global case series. In a cohort of ...