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- This appendix looks at how HIV can develop resistance to antiretroviral drugs and how labs test for drug resistance. At the base of drug resistance is the fact ...
- This guide explains what we know about HIV treatment. What is it? How does it work? What has changed? (A lot has changed, and for the better!) We also explore ...
- HIV treatment goes by many names: combination therapy, antiretroviral therapy (ART), highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and HIV meds, to name just a ...
- HIV treatment has come a long way! If you’ve heard scary stories about the HIV medications of yesteryear - handfuls of pills that need to be taken several ...
- HIV treatment helps people who are living with HIV stay healthy. It does this by suppressing HIV’s ability to make copies of itself. When you take HIV ...
- We now know that there are huge benefits to starting HIV treatment early, before the virus has had a chance to do much damage to your immune system. The earlier ...
- Another huge benefit of taking HIV treatment and maintaining an undetectable viral load is that it can prevent HIV from being passed to the people you have sex ...
- HIV treatment can also prevent the transmission of HIV from a mother to her fetus or child during pregnancy or when giving birth.
- HIV treatment keeps you healthy by suppressing the amount of HIV in your blood. When left untreated, HIV infects CD4 cells and other types of cells in the ...
- Two of the drugs used in many HIV treatment combinations belong to a class of drugs called nukes (nucleoside analogues, or NRTIs). Because the two nukes in a ...
- The ideal treatment combo is one that: . effectively suppresses the virus - that is, reduces your viral load to an undetectable level and keeps it there. ...
- Your healthcare team will play an important part in making your HIV treatment successful. You will be seeing your doctor regularly (if you’re not already), ...