Should I Take Aciclovir If I Have Hiv

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Does Aciclovir affect hiv window?

http://www.thebodypro.com/content/art16266.html From the above article, when pcr is +, but antibody is -, art may affect hiv window. 47days after my single protected sex, I got chicken pox, so i took Aciclovir for about 2 weeks. 66 days after the...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Acyclovir is not an ART drug and will not effect the production of HIV antibodies. The post you reference is quite old and antibody testing has improved. Also, tests for the virus such such as HIV RNA and now p24 obviate any concern regarding... Read more »

Does Aciclovir cause drug resistance to A-tripla medication taken for HIV treatment?

I took 5 tablets of Aciclovir for 5 days and since then have no outbreak of herpes in my genitals.... Read more »

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

HIV Test + p24 antigen affected by Aciclovir?

Dear Doctor, I did a HIV Test + p24 antigen at 100 days and was negative but in that period I was... Read more »

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D. »

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Aciclovir

Otro(s) nombre(s): acyclovir sodium, Zovirax Clase de medicamento: Infecciones oportunistas El aciclovir, conocido también como Zovirax, es un tipo de medicamento llamado antivírico. Estos productos destruyen los virus o les impiden... Read more »

Acyclovir: The Next New HIV Drug?

In two poster presentations at CROI 2009 in Montreal, Canada, acyclovir, a drug used to treat herpes, shows that it also inhibits HIV during the reverse transcription (RT) step in the virus's life cycle. Two studies looked at how acyclovir affected... Read more »

Surprisingly, Acyclovir for HSV-2 Treatment Fails to Curtail HIV Acquisition

In this summary of her study, Connie Celum, M.D., of the University of Washington at Seattle, discusses surprisingly disappointing results from a study examining whether the use of acyclovir to treat herpes simplex virus type-2 infection can, in... Read more »

Herpes Drug Acyclovir Does Not Reduce Risk of HIV Transmission, Does Slow HIV Progression, Study Says

The drug acyclovir, which suppresses herpes simplex virus-2, does not reduce the risk of HIV transmission when taken by HIV-positive people who also have herpes, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of Washington , United... Read more »

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Prueba para maana tomando Aciclovir?

Posted by LaVIHda, 4 Replies

Hola a todos no recuerdo la verdad cuantos aos an pasado para volver a escribir un mensaje, pero bueno aca estoy, tengo una duda, me dio una fuerte infeccion en la garganta (mucha fiebre) seguida de aftas en la boca muy dolorosas por cierto y se me... Read more »

Riesgo de contagio al tener herpes

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

Quera consultarles respecto de la combinacin entre ambas infecciones. Yo sufro de herpes genital desde hace mas de 15 aos, he realizado tratamientos supresivos con aciclovir y valaciclovir con buenos resultados temporales.
En algunos articulos de... Read more »

ESTOY TEMBLANDO

Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies

bueno despues de haber pasdado por los sintomas,deprimirme,tomar aciclovir para aftas,demas medicamentos y terminar con tratamiento antidepresivo,hoy a los 5 meses y tres semanas de la sitiuacion de risgo me hice otro test que me lo pidieron de... Read more »

Itchy skin rash from sun and meds?

Posted by DJones, 5 Replies

I have been on Fluconazole, Acyclovir and Atripla for about 6 months. I noticed problems with a terrible itchy skin rash when I was in the sun when the summer began. I have stayed out of the sun or put sun block on until last Saturday I was at a... Read more »

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