{"id":26844,"date":"2026-10-09T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T12:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26844"},"modified":"2026-10-09T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T18:40:31","slug":"what-causes-a-low-cd4-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26844","title":{"rendered":"What causes a low CD4 count if someone is living with HIV?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Lots of things can cause a low CD4 count, including different infections.<\/p>\n<p>The main cause of a low CD4 count with HIV is not being on treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The longer someone is HIV positive without treatment the lower the CD4 count drops.<\/p>\n<p>After starting HIV treatment &#8211; called ART &#8211; viral load becomes undetectable and the CD4 count increases again.<\/p>\n<p>Please see this link for more detailed information about <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-1\/9-interpreting-cd4-results-cd4-count-and-cd4-percentage\/\">CD4 counts and how to interpret results<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, I was diagnosed last year and live in south Africa. I am doing ok but what causes a low CD4 count?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,49,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-south-africa","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844","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=26844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26855,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26844\/revisions\/26855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}