Abstract
The present article deals with the status of CD4 count and effect of antiretroviral treatment (ART) in clients attending the ART and VCTC at Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. It is a retrospective cross-sectional record-based study for two years of follow-up. According to the present study, 139 subjects have taken ART aged up to 50 years. Out of 139 patients, 106 (76.3%) were males; while 33 (23.7%) were females. It has shown that, there is a significant change (t = 2.18, p < 0.05) between the baseline CD4 count of male and female subjects. Majority of the patients in our study had shown CD4 count ranging between 101 200 cells/cmm and the mean rise in CD4 count is 325.4 cells/cmm after 6 months of ART. So, a significant increase was observed in CD4 count (p<0.05) from baseline to follow up in the study patients. Thus, a significant relationship was established between the ART and the increase in CD4 count (t =18.84, p<0.001). The study patients taking Nevirapine containing regimens has shown significant increase in the CD4 levels just after 6 months of followup. Hence, antiretroviral therapy in the study patients increased the levels of CD4 counts gradually from baseline to follow up after 6 months of ART.
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