The Value of CD4 Point-of-Care Testing Does Point-of-Care CD4 Testing Improve Patient Retention in Care? Is Point-of-Care CD4 Testing Ready for Prime Time? References Lack of adequate laboratory ...

Beckman Coulter Inc. is developing a test for HIV patients that it hopes will be nearly as easy to read as a pregnancy test. It will measure CD4 cells in the patient’s blood stream – a crucial factor ...

Checking CD4 helper T cell levels up to 4 times a year has been a mainstay of HIV/AIDS monitoring, but the value of the test has diminished as the ability to directly detect viral RNA has improved and ...

A new CD4 testing system, the BD FACSPresto Near Patient CD4 Counter system (BD Biosciences), enables patients to monitor their HIV/AIDS, potentially reducing the probability of transmitting the ...

Routine use of point-of-care CD4 testing at the time of HIV diagnosis would be cost effective in countries where health care and other resources are severely limited, experts say. A new point-of-care ...

Research in Mozambique has found that the introduction of rapid point-of-care CD4 testing* almost halved the number of patients who dropped out before starting antiretroviral therapy (ART), and nearly ...

SEATTLE — Patients who initiate ART without pretherapy CD4 monitoring experience a higher risk for early mortality than those who are tested, study data presented at CROI suggest. “We think that it’s ...

CD4 tests is strongly recommended as the preferred method to identify advanced HIV disease among people living with HIV, said the World Health Organization (WHO). The new recommendation is part of the ...

A new point-of-care test to measure CD4 T-cells, the prime indicator of HIV disease progression, can expedite the process leading from HIV diagnosis to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and improve ...

A new point-of-care test to measure CD4 T-cells, the prime indicator of HIV disease progression, can expedite the process leading from HIV diagnosis to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and improve ...