HIV is a latent virus, meaning that not only can it lie dormant for years before developing into full-blown AIDS, but it can also go into hiding when a patient is receiving treatment. This makes it incredibly difficult to eradicate. In fact, only one person in the world is known to hav...
Cabenuva is used to replace people’s current HIV regimen if they meet certain requirements (the amount of virus in your body is undetectable, have had no history of HIV treatment failure, and have had no history of the medicines in Cabenuva not working for you). How Do I Receive It? Ca...
Don't forget that COVID-19 is about 10 times more deadly than the flu, and even higher among vulnerable populations like the elderly. As a result, many fingers are crossed that a vaccine or effective treatment will be available sooner rather than later. This illustration shows Edward Jenner ...
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 ...
Biktarvy was compared to a first-line HIV treatment regimen recommended by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Both studies lasted 144 weeks, and Biktarvy was shown to be as effective as the other treatment regimens. Also, there were no reports of treatment resistance to Bik...
HIV works to promote the expression of genes implicated in cancer. Essentially, HIV wrests control of activation of these cancer genes from the host cells. Although this process does not cause cancer in T cells, the researchers said, the process may help these HIV-harboring T cells to prolifer...
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...
The synthesis of several recent drugs (including HIV Protease Inhibitors for treatment of AIDS) have been assisted using the 3-D structure of protein. CASE I: HOW ASPIRIN AND OTHER NONSTEROIDAL ANTI-INFLAMMATORY INHIBITORS WORKSNonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs work by interfering with the ...
1.HIV cannot multiply on its own. 2.HIV attaches itself to an immune system ‘T-helper’ cell, fuses with it, takes control of its DNA, replicates itself inside the cell, and then releases new HIV into the blood. 3.Different HIV treatment drugs stop the virus fusing, stop it integratin...
Ethnic differences in diseases and medicines will be illustrated with variabilities in lactose tolerance, which is a common excipient in tablets, as well as a common variant of alcohol dehydrogenase, which can reduce the effectiveness of nitroglycerine for the treatment of angina. The final section ...