stay well for a long time without treatment - form a tiny percentage of patients. Dr Nad Qazi of the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital told the BHIVA Conference he had found 35 patients in 1996 who maintained CD4 counts over 500, despite being infected for more than eight years. But by 2001, all but six of these had falling CD4s, and most had started HIV therapy. In a separate study, Dr Philippa Easterbrook of Guy's and St Thomas's found no relation between people's lifestyles and whether they stayed well. She said: "Drink, drugs, exercise, co-infections, positive mental attitude, stress - none of these make you more or less likely to be a LTNP." What did make a difference, she added, was that LTNPs had genetic quirks that made their cells more resistant to HIV infection.
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