(Simonds et al., 2018, Dryden-Peterson et al., 2016, Ferreira et al., 2017, Wu et al., 2020) In our study, 67 % of HIV-positive patients had initiated ART before cervical cancer diagnosis, and the median CD4 cell count at cancer diagnosis was 408 cells/μL. This evidence concerns the gene CD4 and cervical carcinoma.