The most recent published National AIDS Programme Guidelines for Antiretroviral Therapy in Ghana states that HIV-positive individuals can only start HAART treatment if they possess one or more of the following characteristics: their CD4 counts are less than 350 cells/ml; their symptoms can be categorized under WHO clinical stage 3 and 4; or if pregnant, they can be placed under HAART prophylaxis [22]. This evidence concerns the gene CD4 and AIDS.