{"id":22350,"date":"2023-09-25T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=22350"},"modified":"2023-09-25T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:10:50","slug":"what-does-cd4-cd8-and-cd4-cd8-ratio-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/22350","title":{"rendered":"What does CD4, CD8 and CD4\/CD8 ratio mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, how are you doing?<\/p>\n<p>It is great that your viral load is now 100. Are you on treatment? If you are it shows that your treatment is working and HIV is being suppressed. A viral load of 100 is considered undetectable and means you cannot pass on HIV via sex, even without a condom. This is called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/u-equals-u\/\">U=U<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As you now have a suppressed viral load, this will allow your CD4 count to recover. Unlike viral load which responds very quickly to treatment, this is a slower process but it will start to go up. Have you been given an antibiotic called <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/cotrimoxazole\/\">co-trimoxazole<\/a>? While you have a weaker immune system, often people are given this to prevent other infections.<\/p>\n<p>CD8 is not damaged by HIV. This is why this cell type is within a healthy range. Your <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/20\">CD4\/CD8 ratio<\/a> is less than 1 because it is determined by the number of CD4 cells divided by the number of CD8 cells. Most people should have a ratio of 1-1.9. This would mean you have 1-2 CD4 cells for every CD8 cell. Your ratio is lower because you are still waiting for your CD4 cells to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Josh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I was diagnosed on March this year, when I got diagnosed, I didn\u2019t get tested for my Viral Load or CD4 count. 2 months in, I got my Viral Load tested with the result of 100 copies\/mL. I just got my CD4 tested, the result is 243 cells\/microliter, yes, below the 350 or 500 count sadly. My CD4% is 14.6 below the 29% threshold. However, my CD8 count is within the normal range, 984 cells\/microliter. What does this mean? As my CD4\/CD8 ratio is still below 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22350","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22688,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22350\/revisions\/22688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}