HIV infection and its treatment is definitely a serious risk factor for renal disease. Although, optimal care for HIV-infected patients becomes more and more complex due to multiple comorbidities, efforts must be made to diagnose a decline in glomerular filtration rate in order to provide improved control of CKD-associated cardiovascular risk and optimized antiretroviral therapy. Therefore evaluating glomerular filtration rate is critical in HIV-infected patients to allow determination of the optimum follow up strategy and the critical therapeutic measures, namely drug dosage adaptation.