{"id":14098,"date":"2018-01-02T15:29:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=14098"},"modified":"2018-01-02T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:29:20","slug":"should-i-start-art-with-a-cd4-count-of-450","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/14098","title":{"rendered":"Should I start ART with a CD4 count of 450?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like your doctor gave you good information.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, WHO guidelines have recommended HIV treatment (ART) for everyone, even at a high CD4 count above 500.<\/p>\n<p>In a few countries, people wait until 500 if treatment access is difficult, but not to 350.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/start-study\/\">START study<\/a> showed it is better to start earlier than waiting until 350.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/start-study\/\">https:\/\/i-base.info\/start-study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi It sounds like your doctor gave you good information. Since 2015, WHO guidelines have recommended HIV treatment (ART) for everyone, even at a high CD4 count above 500. In a few countries, people wait until 500 if treatment access &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-14098","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\/14098","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=14098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}