Project Overview
Project title: Reflex CD4 testing among people with HIV viraemia to determine the prevalence of advanced HIV disease
The Reflex CD4 project is looking at new ways to identify people living with advanced HIV disease. It focuses on doing CD4 by “reflex” on anyone with a raised level of virus in their blood, otherwise known as ‘viraemic’. The study hypothesises that people living with HIV that have difficulties controlling the level of virus in their blood are at higher risk of being in an advanced stage of HIV so this project hopes to be able to identify this group earlier. The project is running out of a large laboratory in Johannesburg and aims to describe the incidence of advanced HIV disease in those with high levels of HIV in their blood.
Aim: To describe the prevalence of AHD among people with detectable HIV viral loads in Johannesburg by performing reflex CD4 using laboratory-based flow cytometry.
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All relevant regulatory and ethics approvals obtained and sample enrolment has started.
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