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The treatment of aggressive diseases often benefits very noticeably from combination therapy, especially when involving the immune system. In fact, one often-cited combination therapy is HAART: Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy used in the treatment of HIV. With six major types of drugs being used in this combination therapy, each slows or disrupts the replication of HIV cells in different ways.
Sex and Intimacy With HIV. If you or your partner has HIV, know this: With treatment and protection, you can have a long, healthy life together -- and have good sex together, too. Make Sex Safer. You have to use protection, whether you're HIV-positive or you're in a mixed-status couple, in which one person has HIV and the other doesn't. Use condoms every time you have sex. Unprotected sex is the most common way of spreading the virus. Male and female condoms dramatically lower the chances of transmitting HIV.