Over 900 individuals registered to attend, but the event was limited to 500 seats in the auditorium. A follow-up forum was held several weeks later for those who did not attend the first forum. The forum provided the most recent information about HIV treatment. This article will review some of the information reported at the forums. We have found that three-drug combination therapy can raise your CD4 count, lower the viral load in your blood, increase survival, and delay the progression of HIV disease.
Developments concerning viral load testing are also an important part of the progress being made.
There are several viral load tests. This viral load test only measures as low as 500 copies. If the viral load in your blood is below 500 the test cannot detect it and that is good. The CD4 increase for these study participants was greater than 100 cells. This means that the benefits to these people were maintained.