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OIs and AIDS-related cancers tend to occur more commonly in people with lower CD4 counts, and checking your CD4 cell count will allow you to begin necessary prophylactic medications to reduce your risk of opportunistic infections like PCP and mycobacterium Avium and readdress HIV treatment.
The infections are called opportunistic because they take the opportunity to attack you when your immune system is weak. The cancers are called AIDS related because they appear mostly in people who have advanced, later-stage HIV infection, known as AIDS. Most people who die of AIDS do not die from the virus itself. They die from opportunistic infections (or OIs). Often, people are infected with the OI long before they become infected with HIV. Their functioning immune system keeps the OI under control, so they don't have any symptoms of the infection.