“Early in the coronavirus pandemic, DAP Health prioritized our immunocompromised and older patients to ensure they received COVID-19 vaccination in line with recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC has updated its clinical COVID-19 vaccination guidance to recommend that people who are moderately to severely immunocompromised — including people with advanced or untreated HIV — who received either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines receive an additional (third) dose.
Many experts consider people with HIV (PWH) whose CD4 cell count is <200/mm3 or CD4 percentage is 14 or less to have advanced disease.
Today, the majority of our PWH are healthy and thriving because of the comprehensive care they receive, which includes access to life-saving medication that suppresses the HIV viral load…”