HIV patients no longer need to lie to get treatment
5th April 2014
Advocates for HIV patients have welcomed relaxation of PBS criteria that allow patients to start treatment earlier.
Until now, PBS criteria only allowed antiviral treatment to HIV-positive people without clinical symptoms if their CD4 counts fell below 500 .
From 1 April, new criteria allow all HIV patients access to treatment regardless of CD4 levels, by removing the CD4+ cell count restriction for