Learn more about HIV-1 and how treatment options work together to help lower your viral load to undetectable and raise your CD4 cell count.
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...
said the researchers, 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-harborin...
HIV is a lentivirus, a subset of retroviruses that are characterized by extended incubation periods. Not only does this make the virus difficult to detect, hindering direct treatment, but it also means that the
If you need more help, an HIV case manager can help you get the support you need to live a stable life, so you can take care of your health and stay on treatment. Case managers make the process of getting health care and any social services you need much smoother. Your HIV case ...
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...
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。
The three possible HIV cures include a man known as theCity of Hope patient; the New York patient, the first woman to receive the treatment; and a man known asthe Geneva patient, whose case is unusual and being closely monitored. (TheCity of Hope patient revealed his name— Paul Edmonds...
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 ...
Today’s global population living with HIV is living longer and has different, evolving needs; and people living with HIV now have access to an expanding range of highly effective and safe treatment options that offer choices to suit individual needs, including...