With a CD4 count of 375, your immune system is still good. Both the BHIVA (British HIV Association) and WHO (World Health Organisation) treatment guidelines recommend starting with a CD4 count of 350.<\/p>\n
There is no immediate rush for you to start treatment straightway. However, CD4 counts tend to continue dropping over time, when someone is not on treatment. How fast or how slow this happens, is different for each individual. Some people start treatment within a year or two of being infected. Others can take 8 years or more before they need to start.<\/p>\n
Although your CD4 count is good, at 375 it is relatively close to 350. You may therefore find it useful to start thinking about preparing for when you will start treatment. Our guide to An introduction to combination therapy<\/a> answers a lot of questions you may have around this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My CD4 count is 375. <\/p>\n What do I do?<\/p>\n Do I start treatment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}