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Treating HIV/AIDS & Minimizing Your Risk
Advances in treatment have prolonged the lives of people living with HIV / AIDS and improve their quality of life. Although there are treatments, there is still no cure for HIV infection.
It may be difficult for those who are infected with HIV to find a drug plan that works for them. There are often side effects associated with drugs that greatly reduce their quality of life. Using long-term drug treatments can also cause organ damage, heart disease, diabetes and other health problems. In addition, some treatments begin to fail due to drug resistance in new strains of virus . Read the rest of this entry »
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HIV Treatment
HIV is a rare type of virus called a retrovirus, and drugs designed to disrupt the action of HIV are known as antiretrovirals or ARVs. They come in a variety of formulations designed to act at different stages of the life cycle of HIV.
The AIDS virus mutates rapidly, making it very adept at developing resistance to drugs. To minimize this risk, people living with HIV are usually treated with a combination of antiretroviral drugs that attack the virus on several fronts at once. Read the rest of this entry »
How is AIDS treated?
When HIV was identified in the 1980s, there were few drugs to treat HIV and associated opportunistic infections. Since then, a number of drugs have been developed to address both HIV / AIDS and opportunistic infections. For many people, including children, these treatments have extended and improved their quality of life. HIV Scientists at the National Institute of Health estimate since 1989, antiretroviral drugs Americans have tested positive during the years of life extended. But none of these drugs can cure HIV / AIDS, many have side effects that may be severe, and most are expensive. In addition, after 20 years on drugs against AIDS, some people develop resistance to drugs and no longer respond to treatment. New drugs are studied and developed to assist this group of people .