The normal range of CD4 count varies depending on which make of test is used. This is generally between 400 -1600 for 95% of HIV negative people. A small percentage of people will have higher or lower CD4 counts and this will still be normal for them.<\/p>\n
Guidelines recommending when to start treatment vary depending on which country you live in.\u00a0 In general though, since 2015, HIV treatment is recommended for all HIV positive people.<\/p>\n
For example, here in the UK, the 2012 guideline recommends that you should start treatment when your CD4 count is about 350. \u00a0Some US guidelines recommend starting when the CD4 count drops below 500 and others to start at any CD4 count is the person is ready for treatment.<\/p>\n
These differences affect how early people can access treatment in different countries.<\/p>\n
Note: This answer was updated because, from 2015, HIV treatment is recommended for all people living with HIV. There is no need to wait until the CD4 count drips to a certain level.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the fate of a patient (HIV positive) whose CD4 count is still within the normal range? Is the patient advised to start the ART or not? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-newly-diagnosed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}