These treatment regimens were established BECAUSE we came to understand the effects of ongoing exposure to a virus that damages our immune system. We should keep that in mind wrt ongoing, repeated exposure to other viruses which do similar documented damage, especially COVID.
nejmCurrent HIV treatment guidelines worldwide recommend that persons with HIV infection start antiretroviral therapy (ART) regardless of symptoms, signs, clinical stage of disease, CD4 cell count, or HIV RNA level. Learn more about ART in a new review: https://nej.md/4wn6mg2