The Importance of Stop Gaps in HIV Infection

A lot of the disease you see from HIV in latent infection is as a result of the immune response taking out some of your immune system. There's this tug of war back and forth between making more of the cells keep your immune system functioning and HIV infecting them. So that can carry on for a while until late on in infection where there are fewer and fewer of those T-cells to infect, the white cells to infect. If HIV is effectively decimating our white blood cell count, our body's immune response, that must mean that the body is severely immunocompromised. Is that the case then? Does the problem become other infections and diseases in our body that previously we