Acute HIV: What Is New and Do We Treat?(Clinical‪)‬

Although the HIV pandemic is not a new phenomenon, there are still significant gaps in knowledge that influence progress in prevention and treatment strategies. Most of these gaps involve the first few days and weeks of infection, i.e. the period of acute HIV infection. Acute HIV infection (AHI) is usually defined as the time from entry of the virus into the body to completion of seroconversion, while early-stage HIV infection generally refers to the interval between seroconversion and the establishment of the viral load set point. The magnitude of the viral set point is prognostic for disease progression. (1)