Percentage Of Inmates Living With Hiv

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Some California Prison Inmates Oppose Integration With HIV-Positive Inmates

Some inmates at the California Institution for Men in Chino, Calif., are opposed to a desegregation proposal that would move them into a housing unit with HIV-positive inmates, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reports. Prison officials say that... Read more »

Michigan Lifts Ban on HIV-Positive Inmates Serving Food; South Carolina Inmate Segregation Comes Under Fire

The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) has lifted its 11-year-long ban on HIV-positive inmates serving food, according to a report in The Michigan Messenger . Food service is considered one of the highest-paid and most-coveted jobs in the... Read more »

Rep. Waters Introduces Bill That Would Require Federal Prisons to Provide HIV Tests for Inmates, Allow Inmates to Opt Out

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) last week introduced a bill (HR 6038 ) that would require federal prisons to provide HIV tests for inmates at the beginning and end of their incarcerations, The Hill reports. The bill includes a provision that would... Read more »

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translating lab data, re-calculating CD4 percentage

I have been living in Japan the last two years and I have been HIV positive since just before I moved here. In that time I have recieved routine observation of my HIV from a doctor here in Japan. I am not on medication. I am moving back to the USA...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

A crude way would be to multiply the total white blood cell count (WBC) by the percentage of lymphocytes. Take your CD4 count and divide by the previous number. This of course does not take into account other types of lymphocytes like b cells and... Read more »

is this normal cd4 percentage?

Dear doc Young, thanks for your great job. my question is my girlfriend is HIV+ since 2001.we live here in Hong Kong.now her latest lab result is CD4count 301 , viral load is 1100 and CD4 percentage is 7.5 here in Hong Kong, doctor recomend...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thank you for your post from Hong Kong; my mother's family had lived there many years ago. Different countries use different standards and interpretation of labs about when to start medications. That said, if your GFs labs confirm a CD4... Read more »

How to calculate CD4 percentage and CD4 fall question

Dr, I am currently in Lima Peru and was diagnosed HIV+ about a week ago. My tests came back 295 cd4, 778 cd8 and ratio of 0.38. I wanted to know hot to calculate the cd4 percentage just by those numbers. Is it possible?My second question is the...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

No, you can't get the percent from those numbers without having a total lymphocyte number. I agree with your doctor about not worrying about the numbers, as they can fluctuate like that, and I agree with starting HIV treatment. If you have... Read more »

CD4 counts vs CD4 percentage (ABSOLUTE CD4 COUNT VERSUS CD4%, 2008)

Dr. Frascino, I am a little new to dealing with HIV. I was diagnosed about 9 months ago. I was wondering what the CD4 percentage was. Because my CD4 count had changed from 510 to 409 in a three month period but the CD4 percentage had risen by 1%....

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hey College Guy,I'll reprint below some information about absolute CD4 cell counts and CD4%. The CD4% is the more accurate test, as it is less susceptible to variations related to concurrent phenomena (diurnal variation, other infections, etc.)... Read more »

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Acute seroconversion symptoms (percentages)

Posted by oi812Help, 1 Reply

What percentage experience this acute infection symptoms and at how long after exposure/infection.

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CD4 Percentage

Posted by SimonB, 1 Reply

Hello!

Sorry if this is a bore, but I'm recently diagnosed and although know the basics, my first appointment revealed a low CD4 percentage (13%) which caused my doctor some worry and I have to go for another round of tests in a month. VL was 133'000... Read more »

Window period percentage

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Here's the fact's on the window period

1 month - 50%
2 months-80%
3 months-97%
4 months->98%
5 months->99%
6 months->99.99%

These are the facts, except them or not
If you test negative @ 3 months you can be very sure you're
negative especially if it... Read more »

Percentage at 9 weeks!

Posted by Anonymous

Please Calm down, A test at 4 weeks is about 95% accurate and in sweden and the study done in sweden shows 99.9% accurate at 8 weeks and 99.9 or 99.99% is the best to give. I personally dont understand why it should be a big diffrence in people... Read more »

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