HIV and Treatments

A person with HIV infection has AIDS

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a person with HIV infection has AIDS when:

• The person’s CD4 cell count, a way to measure the strength of the immune system, falls below 200 (a normal CD4 cell count is 500 or higher); OR
• the person develops any of the specific serious conditions – also called AIDS-defining illnesses – linked with HIV infection

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