what is used to treat hiv/aids? a. antiretroviral medications b. chemotherapy c. blood transfusions d. antibiotics
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Can we make this page better? HIV can be treated. Many people living with HIV start taking treatment and stay healthy as a result. Current treatment for HIV is not a cure for HIV, but it can keep HIV under control. Antiretroviral treatment works by keeping the level of HIV in your body low (your viral load). This lets your immune system recover and stay strong. Keeping your viral load low also helps to prevent HIV being passed on.
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didanosine (Videx, Videx EC) Viracept (nelfinavir) is an antiviral medication that prevents human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cells from multiplying in your body. Viracept is used to treat HIV, which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Viracept is not a cure for HIV or AIDS.
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Treatment and care Treatment and care. WHO. Standard antiretroviral therapy (ART) consists of the combination of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs to maximally suppress the HIV virus and stop the progression of HIV disease. ART also prevents onward transmission of HIV.
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- For many years, antibiotics were used to prevent PCP in cancer patients with weakened immune systems. In 1985 a study showed that these drugs would also prevent PCP in people with AIDS. The drugs used to treat PCP include TMP/SMX, dapsone, pentamidine, and atovaquone.
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New drug combination treats hepatitis C patients also infected with HIV The study, published online in the New England Journal of Medicine, found the combination of HCV drugs daclatasvir and sofosbuvir -- both pills -- cured HCV in 97 percent of patients also infected with HIV.
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- Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is a short-term anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment that reduces the likelihood of HIV infection after exposure to HIV-infected blood or sexual contact with an HIV-positive person. The drug regimen for PEP consists of a combination of ARV mediations that are taken a period of four weeks.
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Viread HIV is the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). When used with other HIV medicines, NORVIR may reduce the amount of HIV in your blood (called “viral load”). NORVIR may also help to increase the number of CD4 (T) cells in your blood which help fight off other infections.
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- Strategies in U.S. Hospitals. The Health Research & Educational Trust is working with the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. this summer to field a survey of patient and family engagement strategies currently deployed in U.S. hospitals.
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- Treatment as prevention (TasP) refers to HIV prevention methods that use antiretroviral treatment (ART) to decrease the risk of HIV transmission. Antiretroviral treatment reduces the HIV viral load in the blood, semen, vaginal fluid and rectal fluid to very low levels ('undetectable'), reducing the risk of onwards HIV transmission.1.
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HIV/AIDS Treatment Cost 1 Ziagen (abacavir) typically costs about $600 per month; the generic version is about $70 less. 2  Another NRTI, Truvada, costs about $1,200 per month. 3  Protease inhibitors are frequently part of an HIV/AIDS patients' medication regimen, preventing the reproduction of HIV.
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A one-pill, once-a-day HIV-1 treatment. DESCOVY is a prescription medicine that is used together with other HIV-1 medicines to treat HIV-1 in people 12 years and older. DESCOVY is not for use to help reduce the risk of getting HIV-1 infection. DESCOVY combines 2 medicines into 1 pill taken once a day.
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Diagnosis There's no cure for HIV/AIDS, but a variety of drugs can be used in combination to control the virus.Each class of anti-HIV drugs blocks the virus in different ways. It's best to combine at least three drugs from two classes to avoid creating strains of HIV that are immune to single drugs.here's no cure for HIV/AIDS, but a variety of drugs can be used in combination to control the virus.
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Viread HIV medicines, may reduce the amount of HIV in your blood and. help increase the number of CD4 (T) cells. ISENTRESS is a prescription HIV-1 medicine used with other antiretroviral medicines to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) infection in people 4 weeks of age and older. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
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What Are Antiretrovirals? By keeping the viral population fully suppressed, not only do the drugs work longer, there are generally fewer side effects. Antiretrovirals can also be used to lower the risk of HIV transmission from mother to child, to avert infection after an accidental exposure, or help an HIV-negative person avoid getting infected. Sources:
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- Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County. The city had an estimated population of 186,239 in 2016 and a population of 178,874 as of the 2010 census, making it the state's third largest city after Memphis and Nashville.
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Program: Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) to treat HIV/AIDS - 2009 Version 1 Program: Antioretroviral therapy (ART) is a treatment for HIV/AIDS that can prolong and improve patients' lives, and potentially reduce the risk that they will infect others. 2  Track record: ART does effectively prolong life.
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- Generic drugs used in the Treatment of HIV Infection Approved and Tentatively Approved Antiretrovirals in Association with the President's Emergency Plan (PEPFAR) More in HIV/AIDS Treatment HIV Related Therapies Antiretroviral drugs used in the treatment of HIV infection Approved medical devices for the treatment of complications of HIV Approved therapies for the treatment of complications of HIV
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HIV/AIDS Medicines In the early 1980s, when the HIV/AIDS epidemic began, patients rarely lived longer than a few years. But today, there are many effective medicines to fight the infection, and people with HIV have longer, healthier lives. There are five major types of medicines: Reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors - interfere with a critical step during the HIV life cycle and keep the virus from making copies of itself.
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Heart disease and HIV/AIDS AIDS-related cancer that spreads to the heart has become uncommon since the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). This therapy is a combination of anti-HIV drugs (antiretrovirals) that suppress HIV and boost the body's immune system. Patients receiving HAART are less likely to develop infections associated with these cancers.
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- Truvada is one of several medications that are currently used to treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus infection. Truvada is now being used to prevent HIV infection. When you take Truvada to prevent HIV infection, doctors refer to this use as “pre-exposure prophylaxis” or “PrEP”.
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Truvada  (Emtricitabine / Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate ) EMTRICITABINE; TENOFOVIR DISOPROXIL FUMARATE (em tri SIT uh bean; te NOE fo veer) is two antiretroviral medicines in one tablet. It is used with other medicines to treat HIV and with safe sex practices to prevent HIV in high risk persons. This medicine is not a cure for HIV.
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What does 1/8 tsp equal? how do I measure 1/8 tsp if I dont have a 1/8 tsp.
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What Is Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)? Each type, or “class”, of ARV drugs attacks HIV in a different way. The first class of anti-HIV drugs was the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (also called NRTIs or “nukes”.) These drugs block step 4, where the HIV genetic material is used to create DNA from RNA.
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- HIV medicines are grouped into six drug classes according to how they fight HIV. The six drug classes include more than 25 HIV medicines that are approved to treat HIV infection. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provides guidelines on the use of HIV medicines to treat HIV infection.
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HIV-Related Thrombocytopenia Zidovudine is effective treatment for HIV-related thrombocytopenia1 because it improves platelet production by the bone marrow2. Its effect on platelets may be distinct from its effect on HIV. Other anti-HIV drugs may not influence platelet production and may be ineffective against HIV-related thrombocytopenia.
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Pulmonary tuberculosis: diagnosis and treatment Treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with HIV/AIDS is complicated by interactions between antiretroviral and antituberculosis drugs, particularly rifampicin. The standard regimens for the two conditions are usually modified to minimise unwanted effects.