Drug Therapy For Hiv

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The 8th International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection

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The 6th International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection

The Body Covers: The 6th International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection Glasgow, United Kingdom November 17-21, 2002 Conference Summaries Coverage From Other Sources This Congress addressed therapeutic research and treatment of... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

CROI: Five-Drug HIV Therapy No Better Than Standard

Boosting the number of antiretrovirals (ARVs) administered to treat acute and early HIV infection is not effective, according to a study presented at this week's 18th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston. Forty-eight... Read more »

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Drug therapy for HIV infected 18 month old?

PLEASE HELP!We have adopted 18 month old twins from Tanzania, Africa. The little girl is HIV+ and we need some advice as to whether we should be starting medication now or not, and if so - what medication to use. We are still living in Tanzania...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

HiWhether your daughter is a candidate for HIV therapy depends predominantly on the strength of her immune system at present and whether she has any symptoms or signs of HIV disease. I am not sure where you are in Tanzania but there are ways to get... Read more »

Acute Drug-induced Hepatitis; a result of HIV drug therapy?

I'm currently on Bactrim and Norvir, Prezista and Truvada. I contracted HIV on Oct 6, 2011 and started ART on Oct 31, 2011 during seroconversion. Initial t cell count was 154 with viral load of > 500,000 copies/mL. My last PCR revealed a T...

Response from Barbara McGovern, M.D.

Tufts University School of Medicine

I share your concerns about your liver injury. I also agree with the discontinuation of your Bactrim by your doctor. However, if I were a betting person, I would stake a bid on your Green Tea extract...I have cut and pasted some titles of articles... Read more »

do ks lesions lessen after the beginning of hiv drug therapy

I am hiv positive and just recovered from a severe bout of pcp. Over the past month I have (already biopsied) developed KS lesions on my chest legs feet and neck I am told these lesions will lessen and eventually fade over time after I have been on...

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

Rocky Mountain CARES

Thanks for your post.I'm sorry to hear about your recent diagnosis and Kaposi's sarcoma. Yes, in the vast majority of cases, KS lesions will subside once effective (and adhered to) antiretroviral therapy is started. This process can take... Read more »

Mental effects of HIV therapy drugs

My lover (+) and I (-) have been together 2.5 years. We met and he told me about 2 months after. We did not have sex until after he told me. After being together about 1 year, he became ill. I found a doctor and he is now doing great physically. For...

Response from Robert H. Remien, Ph.D.

Columbia University

It is very hard to judge what is going on with your lover without a lot more information and without talking with him directly. However, I can say that it is very rare for depression to be a direct side effect of HIV treatment. People living with... 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 »

hiv gene therapy

Posted by hopefulone, 2 Replies

hiv gene therapy has been getting a lot of play in the national and international press as of late....i would be interetested in comments on this hope. Read more »

Changing drug therapy

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I have been HIV+ for 12+ years and have never had a T4 count above 400 and have been as low as 128. I have never had any oportunistic infection or HIV related illness.
Current treatment includes Combivir & Crixivan. Current viral load 2043 and... Read more »

starting drug therapy

Posted by Anonymous

Hi all ! Im from sweden.I have hiv since one year. My cd4 cell is 500 and my virus is 100 000. My doctor don`t want to start treatment before my cd4 cell is below 200.
I have read that in USA they will start treatment earlier.
Please can someone give... Read more »

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