A cheaper laboratory test that helps guide anti-retroviral drug treatment for people with HIV/AIDS may be just as effective as a more sophisticated test, a group of international researchers has found ...

Research in Mozambique has found that the introduction of rapid point-of-care CD4 testing* almost halved the number of patients who dropped out before starting antiretroviral therapy (ART), and nearly ...

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) attacks CD4 cells, which are a small part of the white blood cells. In acute HIV, white blood cell count may drop slightly but still look “normal.” A white blood ...