How will HIV treatment change by 2020? Over the next few years, we are likely to see potent 2-drug regimens tested head-to-head with standard three-drug regimens, and some of these will likely become standard-of
Viral load.This is the gold standard for tracking your HIV treatment. It’s the amount of HIV in your blood. The goal of your treatment is to make it so low that it’s undetectable. That means you have too few viruses for tests to pick up, and that you can’t pass on HIV to so...
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.
Stage 2: chronic HIV infection. HIV is still active but reproduces much more slowly. ART treatment can keep you in this stage for many decades. This can help maintain CD4 at healthy levels, sometimes indefinitely. If, without adequate treatment, this period starts to head toward stage 3, yo...
What Does HIV Do to the Immune System? With HIV, immune system depression occurs. HIV attacks white blood cells, or T cells, in the immune system. It attacks a certain kind of white blood cell called a CD4-positive T cell. The virus replicates, making copies of itself, and infects gre...
Early treatment and good management can help you live for years with an HIV infection. You will need to learn about HIV and manage your health to improve your quality of life. Do the following to help keep your immune system strong: ...
Generally, palliative medicine is discussed in the context of serious illness: chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders; renal disease; chronic heart failure; HIV/AIDS; progressive neurological conditioners; cancer; etc. It focuses upon the nature of treatment and the possible and impossible outcomes of...
STAGE 2:Clinical Latency.During this stage, HIV reproduction slows dramatically. Individuals are still infectious, though their symptoms may decrease or go away entirely. The duration of the clinical latency period varies from patient to patient. Antiretroviral therapy is a form of treatment developed...
The risk of a woman spreading HIV to her baby can be greatly reduced if she is on medicine that reduces the amount of virus in her blood to undetectable levels during pregnancy. Continues treatment during pregnancy. Does not breast-feed her baby. The baby should also receive Get AccessRelated...
suppress HIV-1 replication indefinitely in people on optimal combined antiretroviral therapy (cART), HIV-1 persists as a stably integrated and replication-competent provirus in a heterogeneous collection of long-lived cells (often referred to as ‘latent reservoirs’) in all individuals on treatment....