You probably won’t “feel” your human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) medication working. However, there are a couple ways your care team can see if your HIV medicine is doing its job: a CD4 count and your viral load.
Stella A. Safo, MD, MPH, is an HIV primary care physician and assistant professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital.
References
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2024). Treating HIV.
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (2019). Treatment decisions.
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