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61. When does a person with HIV infection have AIDS?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a person with HIV infection has AIDS when:

the person’s CD4 cell count, a way to measure the strength of the immune system, falls below 200 (a normal CD4 cell count is 500 or higher); or

the person develops any of the specific serious conditions – also called AIDS-defining illnesses – linked with HIV infection.

New HIV/AIDS drug treatments have lowered the number of AIDS-related deaths in the United States.

If you are HIV positive and pregnant, there are medicines you can take that can greatly decrease the chances of your baby having HIV.