Living well with a low CD4 count

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  HIV and TB in Practice for nurses: cotrimoxazole prophylaxis

  Cotrimoxazole prophylaxis is the use of a common antiobiotic to prevent a range of infections that commonly affect people living with HIV. ...

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Living well with a low CD4 count in your own words

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  My journey

  When I was diagnosed HIV-positive it was only a year after a serious heart operation, and I really felt my health was broken, that I’d...

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Living well with a low CD4 count news from aidsmap

• Fluctuating symptoms have major impact on quality of life and fitness to work, survey finds

  Common but non-specific symptoms of uncertain cause can dominate the day-to-day life of some people with HIV, a survey by the National AIDS Trust has found. In many cases symptoms such as fatigue, insomnia, depression, diarrhoea and neuropathy make ...

  07 September 2011 | Gus Cairns

• Low CD4 cell count associated with poor response to swine flu vaccine for those with HIV

  Many HIV-positive patients do not develop protective antibody levels after receiving the standard dose of the swine flu vaccine, a study published in the September 10th edition of AIDS shows. A low current CD4 cell count was the only ...

  31 August 2010 | Michael Carter

• Starting HIV treatment improves immune response to Kaposi's sarcoma

  Treatment with antiretroviral drugs dramatically enhances the response of the immune system to Kaposi's sarcoma herpes virus (KSHV), often clearing the virus from HIV-positive gay men, Swiss investigators report in the online edition of AIDS. “This ...

  21 June 2010 | Michael Carter

• Bone loss linked to low CD4 count on treatment - is bone a reservoir for HIV?

  A review of 3512 patients receiving HIV treatment in the San Francisco area has found no evidence for an increased risk of bone disease related to specific HIV drugs. Instead, the analysis found that reduced bone ...

  28 January 2003 | Keith Alcorn

• More good news on ceasing OI prophylaxis

  Preventative medicine for toxoplasma encephalitis may be safely ceased in individuals with sustained CD4 improvements, according to new data from the Swiss Cohort Study published in The Lancet. The researchers followed 199 HIV-infected individuals, co-infected with Toxoplasma ...

  05 March 2001 | Megan Nicholson

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