What’s New In Treatment Monitoring: Viral Load And CD4 Testing
Originally published on July 1, 2017 Posted on November 15, 2018
Treatment initiation
- ART should be initiated in all children, adolescents, pregnant and breastfeeding women and adults living with HIV, regardless of WHO clinical stage and at any CD4 cell count.
- ART should be initiated in all children, adolescents, pregnant and breastfeeding
women and adults living with HIV, regardless of WHO clinical stage and at any CD4 cell count. - As a priority, ART should be initiated in all children, adolescents and adults with severe or advanced HIV clinical disease and adults with a CD4 count ≤ 350 cells/mm3 as well as children < 5 years of age with WHO clinical stage 3 or 4 or CD4 count ≤ 750 cells/mm3.
