Patients were at an advanced AIDS stage with a median [IQR] CD4+ T cell count of 25 cells/mm3 [12–60] and median [IQR] BMI of 17.3 kg/m2 [15.8–19.1]; 167 patients (31%) had a body weight ≥50 kg, including 27 (5%) patients weighing ≥60 kg. This evidence concerns the gene CD4 and AIDS.