CCO Infectious Disease Podcast

Key Decisions in HIV Care: Managing Suboptimal CD4+ Cell Count Increase Despite Suppressive ART

Episode Summary

Listen as William R. Short, MD, MPH, AAHIVS, discusses the data supporting guideline recommendations about the consequences of suboptimal CD4+ cell count, whether to intensify therapy, switch ART, and more.

Episode Notes

In this episode, William R. Short, MD, MPH, AAHIVS, explores recommendations and data on strategies to address suboptimal CD4+ cell count response in people with HIV on suppressive ART.

Listen as he gives his perspectives on:

• The consequences of suboptimal CD4+ cell count response
• ART intensification
• ART switch strategies with data from the SPIRAL study
• Data on the addition of interleukin-2 from the SILCAAT and ESPIRIT studies
• DHHS guideline recommendations

Presenter:
William R. Short, MD, MPH, AAHIVS
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Medicine
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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