Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2015) 4(4): 906-910 906 Original Research Article The Values of CD4 Count, among HIV Positive Patients in FMC Owerri Obeagu Emmanuel Ifeanyi 1* and Obeagu, Getrude Uzoma 2 1 Diagnostic Laboratory Unit, University Health Services, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abai State, Nigeria 2 Department of Nursing Science, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Introduction Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) (Weiss, 1993). This is a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life threatening opportunistic infection and cancers to thrive. Infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate or breast milk of the infected person to HIV free person. Within these body fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells. The four major routes of transmission are unsafe sex, contaminated needles, breast milk, and transmission from an infected mother to her baby at birth (perinatal transmission). (Fox et al., 1992). Viruses such as HIV cannot grow or reproduce on their own, the need to infect the cells of a living organism in order to replicate. The human immune system usually detects and kills viruses fairly quickly, but HIV attacks the immune system itself, the very thing that would normally get rid of the virus. (Ascher et al., 1990) HIV is a causative organism of autoimmune deficiency syndrome which was recognized as a new disease syndrome in the early 1980 s in the USA with the unusual ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 4 Number 4 (2015) pp. 906-910 http://www.ijcmas.com The values of CD4 Count was carried out. One hundred and sixty four subjects were sampled, comprising one hundred and fourteen HIV positive subjects and fifty HIV negative subjects which served as the control. CD4 count was analyzed using standard techniques. The results showed that HIV positive subjects had a significantly lower CD4 count (390.00±107.09) when compared with the HIV negative subjects (970 ± 220.05) respectively. Keywords CD4 Count, HIV Positive Patients