{"id":8568,"date":"2013-01-21T16:40:52","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=8568"},"modified":"2013-01-21T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:41:00","slug":"my-cd4-is-500-vl-is-1000-is-that-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/8568","title":{"rendered":"My CD4 is 500, VL is 1000, is that bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>Thank-you for your email. Can I ask if you have just been diagnosed with HIV? If you have, how are you coping?<\/p>\n<p>Both of your test results are very good.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8216;normal&#8217; CD4 count for somebody who is HIV negative is between 400-600. In the UK HIV treatment isn&#8217;t recommended until your CD4 count is 350 or below. This is because while your CD4 count is above 350 your immune system is still strong, and you are very unlikely to become ill because of HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Your viral load is quite low, which is good. The viral load isn&#8217;t such an important test result unless you are on treatment already.If you are not on treatment then the viral load result is not usually used to make any treatment decisions.\u00a0The exception would be if your viral load was 100,000 or above, which can be a reason to start treatment.<\/p>\n<p>If you are on treatment the aim is to reach a viral load of less than 50. This is usually achieved within 3-6 months of starting treatment.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about CD4 count and viral load please see our <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/cd4-count-and-viral-load\">Introduction to combination therapy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My CD4 is 500 and viral load 1000, should I be worried?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8568","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\/8568","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}