What Is The Main Goal Of HIV Treatments

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HIV Treatment Guidelines

Table of Contents What Are the Treatment Guidelines? Treatment Goals When to Start Treatment? What to Start With? Changing or Stopping Treatment Resistance Testing Taking Care of Yourself What Are the Treatment Guidelines? A branch of the US government, called the Department of Health and HumanServices (DHHS), has put together a set of HIV treatment guidelines. Theguidelines provide a lot of useful information to help...

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treatment goals HCV and HIV

Hi Doctor: Please help us understand the difference.. In HCV treatment, the goal seems to be to get HCV viremia to undetectable which is equivalent to a cure. In HIV the goal is to get viremia to undetectable, which is not a cure, but better...

Response from Gerald Pierone, M.D.

AIDS Research and Treatment Center of the Treasure Coast

Yes, hepatitis C virus can be eradicated with medications because it does not cross into the nucleus of the host cell and insert its own genetic material into the DNA like HIV does. This "Trojan horse" attribute of HIV is why cure is not... Read more »

treatment goals HCV and HIV

Hi Doctor:Please help us understand the difference..In HCV treatment, the goal seems to be to get HCV viremia to undetectable which is equivalent to a cure.In HIV the goal is to get viremia to undetectable, which is not a cure, but better...

Response from Douglas T. Dieterich, M.D.

New York University, School of Medicine

Glad you asked! HIV is a retrovirus and immediately upon infection integrates itself into your genome, your DNA. HCV is a flavivirus, its cousins are Yellow Fever virus, Dengue Fever virus and West Nile virus, they do not integrate themselves into... Read more »

What is the Goal of taking HIV Meds?

Hi Dr. I'd like to know when taking HIV meds what is the ultimate goal? Is it to raise CD4 count? Reduce viral load? And if that happens and someone gets to normal levels do they feel better? Does having a normal CD4 count and zero viral load...

Response from David Wohl, M.D.

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

It is all about the CD4 cells. HIV therapy is like birth control for the virus, it prevents it from reproducing - making more of itself. Less virus means more CD4 cells. More CD4 cells mean better protection against infection AND better ability... Read more »

KS, Nodules in Main Bronchus, what should I do?

You recently responded to my post titled 'KS, Chemotherapy and CD4-Cells; How much of a hit will my CD4 cells take if I start chemotherapy' Thank you for your response. The update is I had a CT scan and the report says Nodules in Main...

Response from Bruce Dezube, M.D.

Harvard Medical School

I certainly can understand your frustration, but it seems to me that things are happening as they should be happening. When nodules are seen on CT scan, then it is reasonable that a lung doctor look down there to figure out what they are due to.... Read more »

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