Whats the new CD4 count that treatment initiation should be started at, do you think?
This is just a personal opinion. I certainly think that patients who reach 350 CD4 cells should definitely start therapy. There are always issues, and every patient is an individual, obviously. But in my practice, when patients start getting below 500, I start talking to them about, you know, maybe it’s getting time to think about starting therapy. So somewhere, I think, between 350 and 500 is where my practice is. But I wouldn’t be surprised, over the next five years, that that moves up even higher. We’ll see. Do you think the guidelines that will soon be released, I hope, will reflect that? I’m not part of the guidelines panel. I have friends that are on the guidelines panel, and I know it’s a very active discussion. That’s the best I can tell. I don’t know what they are going to decide. I really don’t know. Because there is no… We don’t have any hard data yet. So I think it will be a matter of opinion. But I think the guidelines will probably come out a little more strongly with s
