The CD4 count is a test that measures how many CD4 cells you have in your blood ... The goal of ART is to lower the level of HIV in your blood – your “viral load” – to an undetectable ...

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A new study found that iron supplements are safe for children with HIV in Uganda, as they improve hemoglobin levels without ...

A long and difficult scientific search, using blood samples from hundreds of HIV-resistant patients, finally teased out the genetic explanation. Resistant individuals had in their cells two copies ...

The case was part of a larger US study of people living with HIV who had received the same type of blood transplant to treat cancer and serious diseases. The transplanted cells that were selected ...

He was not cured by the HIV drugs, however, but by a stem-cell treatment he received for ... has no detectable active HIV infection in his blood, semen or tissues, his doctors say.

Notably, the surface of type A red blood cells have glycans that differ from ... cover the surface of the viruses that cause COVID-19, HIV and H1N1 influenza and help them infect cells. Glycolipids ...

Morrison and Phan used reverse transcriptase inhibiting drugs, commonly used to suppress HIV replication ... blocked the increase in blood-forming stem cells and red blood cell production during ...