Combination Therapy For Hiv

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Emergence of Drug Resistance and First-Line Combination Therapy in the Swiss HIV Cohort Study

Viktor von Wyl and colleagues 1 looked at the Swiss Cohort to examine the emergence of antiretroviral resistance after patients began their first antiretroviral regimen that included either a non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)... Read more »

Roche, Trimeris Announce Study Results Indicating Fuzeon, MK-0518 Combination Therapy Effective in Lowering HIV to Undetectable Levels

Roche and biopharmaceutical company Trimeris on Thursday announced that their antiretroviral drug Fuzeon -- known generically as enfuvirtide -- in combination with Merck 's experimental drug MK-0518 in a recent study decreased HIV viral loads to... Read more »

Prezista Now Available for Pediatric Patients Six Years of Age and Older as Part of HIV Combination Therapy

Bridgewater, NJ -- Tibotec Therapeutics, a division of Centocor Ortho Biotech Products, L.P., today announced the availability of a lower-dose (75 mg) formulation of PREZISTA® (darunavir) for pediatric patients with HIV. The announcement follows... Read more »

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Diet Pills (Phentermine) & HIV combination therapy

Hello,I am a 25 year old male who is 40 pounds overweight. I am currently on combination of reyataz and combivir. My doctor told me to just try excercisng and eating right to lose the weight. A friend of mine who is not hiv positive and is taking...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thanks for your post.I'm not aware of any specific drug-drug interaction between your meds, though I doubt that this has been formally evaluated. Nevertheles, any patient that has persistent shortness of breath has a medical condition that... Read more »

HIV PEP combination therapy less than 4 weeks

Hi,I read that theretically the combination therapy (combovir plus kaletra) should have succeeded by now after two weeks. Is that correct? I know the WHO guidelines say 4 weeks.Regards,Alex...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi Alex,I certainly would not trust "theoretically" in this case! PEP should be taken for a full 28-day course. Dr. Bob... Read more »

hiv pregnant on combination therapy

I discovered i was pregnant on my 5th week of pregnancy and i was on combination therapy i.e. sustiva,combivir and trimethoprim and sulfamethoxazole i stopped my therapy and went to see my doctor who told me to remain on the rest of the drugs except...

Response from Sharon Lee, M.D.

University of Kansas Medical Center

It is not likely that you will have a deformed baby due to the medicines. I would not advise you to stop the drugs now and resume them in a month or so. Although I don't have all the details of your case, I think that your doctor's advise... Read more »

Combination therapy or prophylaxsis ?

I am a 33 year woman who has been living with HIV for 12 years. In the last month I developed bacterial pneumonia while on holiday. My CD4 count was 210 and viral load 83,200. I am not currently on any treatment and now want to know whether I can...

Response from Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D.

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thank you for your questions.With a CD4 count of 210 and recent history of bacterial pneumonia, I'd be thinking of starting HIV therapies in the near future. Indeed, a case of "recurrent" bacterial pneumonia, irrespective of CD4... Read more »

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New HIV therapy shows promise

Posted by losing_it, 1 Reply

Saw this on cnn today.....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Researchers may finally be on track to fight the AIDS virus by blocking a long-elusive target, an HIV enzyme called integrase. An experimental drug that inhibits the enzyme helped to keep the infection in... Read more »

New combined Truvada/Sustiva combination

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

Hi.
Just wondered if anybody knew as to when the above co-formulated combo will be available? I s it this year?
I am starting with Truvada + Sustiva, but as I not keen on taking tablets anyway, I would rather take just 1 tablet instead of 2.
Thank you Read more »

Resistant, then what? How many lines of therapy?

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

What percentage of folks infected with HIV are basically screwed by total resistance right out of the gate? I know resistance forms of HIV is becoming more common, but generally there is still a line of treatment options that will work for these... Read more »

anyone taking Isentress and Invirase combination?

Posted by nevereasy

Isentress is a relatively new therapy. My Dr just added it to my mono therapy of Invirase (boosted with Norvir). I have been undetectable for two years on the Invirase but my Tcells never get over 300. He added Isentress. I have had bad reflux ( not... Read more »

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