HIV-1 medicines may lower the amount of HIV-1 in your blood (your viral load) to undetectable. Undetectable means the amount of virus in your blood is so low that it can’t be measured by a test. Reaching and keeping an undetectable viral load is a good sign that your treatment is w...
more rare ways of contracting HIV, such as oral sex, blood transfusions, and transplants. During pregnancy, an HIV-positive mother can also infect her child, although, with the proper treatment, this possibility is less than 1%.
See How AIDS Works as well as the links below for more information. HIV Lifecycle AIDS Research AIDS and HIV Drugs AIDS/HIV Research and Treatment How Antibiotics Work Sometimes your immune system is not able to activate itself quickly enough to outpace the reproductive rate of a certain ...
Your case manager can make sure you’re ready to take on the responsibility of dailyHIV treatmentand help you set up an appointment with a doctor who prescribes ART. They can counsel you about how to take your meds, stick to your treatment plan, and take care of your health. ...
How to Take HIV Medications Effectively Adherence to your HIV treatment plan is essential for your health. To maintain an undetected or low viral load, you must take your medications at the same time every day or as prescribed. Before you even begin your treatment plan, you should discuss wit...
hindering direct treatment, but it also means that the host person can spread the disease for many months, if not years, before they are aware they are carrying it. Once past its dormancy stage,HIV begins to attack CD4 immune cells(T cells), severely weakening the victim’s ability to com...
会降低体内的HIV病毒水平, 直至检测不到。 That doesn’t mean the virus is gone; 但这并非意味着病毒消失了; it could still be lurking within cells, ready to reactivate if treatment stops. 它依然潜伏在细胞内, 如果停止服用药物,还会反扑。
This is where we recognise the need for treatment and the urgent requirement of a vaccine. Future work Since the HIV/AIDS epidemic in 1981, researchers have been trying to understand the complex virus and its interactions with the host. This is so we can work towards the development of suita...
The three possible HIV cures include a man known as the City of Hope patient; the New York patient, the first woman to receive the treatment; and a man known as the Geneva patient, whose case is unusual and being closely monitored. (The City of Hope patient revealed his name— Paul Edm...
At what point should medicine shift from a regimen trying to cure a person to a treatment that can provide comfort and control pain, a state known as palliative care? Will the person choose to die at home, in a hospital or in a hospice? How can the final days be as meaningful as ...