AIDS-defining illnesses, especially TB, more frequent at high CD4 counts in Africa and Asia

Rates of death and illness remained 'substantial' even at higher CD4 cell counts among people receiving antiretroviral therapy in lower-income settings, and much greater efforts to get people onto treatment earlier will be needed to reduce this burden in people living with HIV, according to findings of an international review of treatment outcomes in seven countries published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.