Aidsmap | Majority of HIV patients in North America need to start treatment at time of diagnosis: "The majority of patients newly diagnosed with HIV in North America have a CD4 cell count that is low enough to warrant the immediate initiation of antiretroviral therapy, investigators report in the June 1st edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Until November 2009 US HIV treatment guidelines recommended that a patient should start taking antiretroviral drugs when their CD4 cell count is around 350 cells/mm3. However, 54% of patients in the study had a CD4 cell count below this level.
In November 2009 new US guidelines were issued which recommend treatment for everyone with a CD4 count below 500, and also propose that people with CD4 counts over 500 should consider starting treatment too."
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