The incidence of candidiasis has been shown to increase with a CD4+ cell count below 200.14,15 Kore et al. and Han et al. demonstrated a significant decline in candidiasis in their study population after the initiation of ART (20.8% vs. 11.5% and 64.04% vs. 16.6%).14,20 The majority of participants in our study were on ART and had a CD4+ count above 200. This evidence concerns the gene CD4 and candidiasis.