CD4 and vitamin D deficiency: Meanwhile, a good number of local and international studies have reported varying relationship; both positive and negative, with others failing to demonstrate any correlation [27] A recent study in the neighborhood Uganda associated low CD4 count with vitamin D deficiency [5]; thus, echoing other findings from related studies in France and Colombia which equally suggested that severe vitamin D deficiency could be independently associated with low CD4 count [3, 4, 28].