{"id":11548,"date":"2016-07-04T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T17:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=11548"},"modified":"2016-07-04T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T17:11:45","slug":"if-your-cd4-count-is-300-do-you-have-to-start-treatment-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/11548","title":{"rendered":"If your CD4 count is 300, do you have to start treatment immediately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>In general, HIV treatment (ART) is now recommended at any CD4 count.<\/p>\n<p>So a CD4 count of 300 is definitely a reason to start.<\/p>\n<p>The urgency for needing treatment means being careful with words like &#8220;immediately&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Although it would be good to be on treatment now, there is little difference between when in the next few weeks that you start.<\/p>\n<p>If you need a little time to consider your choices this is okay too. But then starting is recommended in all guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi In general, HIV treatment (ART) is now recommended at any CD4 count. So a CD4 count of 300 is definitely a reason to start. The urgency for needing treatment means being careful with words like &#8220;immediately&#8221;. Although it would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}