What Are Successful Drugs In AIDS Treatment

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Lack of Antiretroviral Drugs Hinders Success of HIV/AIDS Treatment Programs in Africa

A lack of antiretroviral drugs is the "biggest" problem facing HIV/AIDS treatment programs in Africa, according to Robert Colebunders, a Belgian researcher at Uganda's Infectious Disease Institute at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, the Chicago Tribune ... Read more »

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

American Foundation for AIDS Research: HIV Treatment-Experienced Patients Set High Standards for Therapy Success

Multiple-drug-resistant virus is a growing concern in HIV treatment. A survey commissioned by the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) found that patients who have failed at least two HIV drug regimens continue to have high standards for... Read more »

Using Hair to Manage HIV/AIDS and Predict Treatment Success

UCSF researchers have found that examining levels of antiretroviral drugs in hair samples taken from HIV patients on therapy strongly predicts treatment success. The findings , published in the February 20 issue of AIDS , note that the levels of... Read more »

Ask the Experts

Successful treatment with an OMT program

I am a methadone provider and I am working with an active late stage AIDS patient. She has struggled with abstinance but is hanging in there with both anti-viral treatment and the methadone program. I know that her methadone levels have dropped...

Response from Brian Conway, M.D.

University of British Columbia

We are involved in a directly observed therapy program where we give methadone and HIV medications together in community pharmacies. It is clear than NNRTIs cause methadone levels to decrease and require an increase in methadone dosing of about 25%... Read more »

WWW.ABCNEWS.COM ABOUT AIDS TREATMENT

Dear Docs:ABC News said that FDA will reverse itself about AIDS treatment: NO MORE "hit early and hit hard"!!! That every one has been wrong about this. GOD, is this true Docs?Where do those patients got "hit early and hit...

Response from Cal Cohen, M.D., M.S.

Harvard Medical School

Well, we have talked about this on here before - so please scan around some of the answers already posted recently.But the issue you raise is part of the controversy about how to best use our treatment options. So here are some highlights of the... Read more »

what happens if treatment not successful

what options are available if the treatment of the weekly needle and pills are not successful?...

Response from Mark Holodniy, M.D., F.A.C.P., C.I.C.

Stanford University, School of Medicine

There are medication options that still could be available. This all depends on what HIV medications you have already been exposed to and what medications your virus is resistant to.... Read more »

Aids prevention treatment in pregnant womanfollowing rape

What would be the alternative treatment prevention open to a pregnant womanwho has been victimized by rape and exposedto AIDS infection. What drug(s) would provide the list side effect risk tothe unborn child?...

Response from Cal Cohen, M.D., M.S.

Harvard Medical School

I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "alternative." There is growinginterest in post-exposure prophylaxis for sexual exposures, based on theapparent success of giving antiretroviral therapy to health-care workersafter needle stick... Read more »

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HIV med success stories?

Posted by sunkyst, 7 Replies

Does anyone here have any success stories with HIV meds i.e. you've been on treatment for a while and it's working well for you without too many serious side effects? Read more »

Success and happiness are NOT allowed

Posted by Lovinlife, 4 Replies

I previously tried to put up a post asking people to share anything positive or good that is going on in their life. I think it's just as important to see as the posts about people's struggles.

I got shot down in a very mean fashion for my post.

If as... Read more »

HIV/AIDS drugs saved my life!

Posted by bradford

HIV/AIDS drugs saved my life!

From the time I was told I had six months to live by an AIDS specialist in 1985, I learned from other people infected with HIV and included supplements and complementary therapies. These kept me healthy and were... Read more »

AIDS Treatment

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

AIDS Drugs May Cause Other Illnesses Research* Strokes and coronary disease are linked to powerful protease inhibitors, some doctors suspect.

By JANE E. ALLEN, TIMES STAFF WRITER

The powerful drug cocktails that have enabled AIDS patients to live... Read more »

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