Gender Differences in Lymphocyte Populations, Plasma HIV RNA Levels, and Disease Progression in a Cohort of Children Born to Women Infected With HIV

Abstract

Plasma RNA levels differed among antiretroviral therapy-treated, HIV-infected children according to gender, in a manner similar to that noted in previous pediatric and adult studies. Lymphocyte subsets varied according to gender in a cohort of HIV-exposed but uninfected children. Most importantly, overall mortality rates for this cohort differed according to gender.