{"id":63,"date":"2023-01-01T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/ttfa\/?page_id=63"},"modified":"2023-01-12T00:13:22","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T00:13:22","slug":"10-differences-between-adults-and-children","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/section-1\/10-differences-between-adults-and-children\/","title":{"rendered":"1.10 CD4 differences between adults and children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Children generally have higher CD4 counts than adults. Babies have higher CD4 counts than children.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Children under 12 years old with HIV are monitored by CD4% rather than absolute CD4 count.<\/li>\n<li>After the age of about 60, the adult\u00a0CD4 count drops gradually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Table: CD4% and CD4 counts for babies and children<\/h2>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>HIV disease category<\/th>\n<th>CD4%<\/th>\n<th>CD4 0-12 months old<\/th>\n<th>CD4 1-5 years old<\/th>\n<th>CD4 6-12 years old<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 &#8211; no damage<\/td>\n<td>25% or over<\/td>\n<td>over 1,500<\/td>\n<td>over 1,000<\/td>\n<td>over 500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2 &#8211; moderate<\/td>\n<td>15-24%<\/td>\n<td>750-1,500<\/td>\n<td>500-1,000<\/td>\n<td>200-500<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3 &#8211; severe<\/td>\n<td>under 15%<\/td>\n<td>under 750<\/td>\n<td>under 500<\/td>\n<td>under 200<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>ART is now recommended for children of all ages.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2021 WHO guidelines include a detailed discussion on why this is important.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dynamic-content__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/9789240022232\" rel=\"noopener\">Updated recommendations on HIV prevention, infant diagnosis, antiretroviral initiation and monitoring (2021)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/rest\/bitstreams\/1336192\/retrieve\" rel=\"noopener\">Direct link.<\/a> (PDF download)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children generally have higher CD4 counts than adults. Babies have higher CD4 counts than children. Children under 12 years old with HIV are monitored by CD4% rather than absolute CD4 count. After the age of about 60, the adult\u00a0CD4 count &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":384,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-63","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/ttfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}