Opinion Paper

What is the role of CD4 count in a large public health antiretroviral programme?

Michelle Moorhouse, Francesca Conradie, Francois Venter
Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine | Vol 17, No 1 | a446 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajhivmed.v17i1.446 | © 2016 Michelle Moorhouse, Francesca Conradie, Francois Venter | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 11 November 2015 | Published: 12 February 2016

About the author(s)

Michelle Moorhouse, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa
Francesca Conradie, Right to Care and Clinical HIV Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Francois Venter, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

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Keywords

HIV; CD4 count; viral load

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