SOAIDS

HIV Medication

 

How do you get it?   Opportunistic infections  CD4-cells  Viral load test  HIV Medication  Adherence  Resistance

 

What about the medication?

 

  • There are drugs that inhibit the HIV virus, making it less active.
  • They are known as anti-retroviral drugs (ARV's).
  • You can take these drugs to delay or prevent developing AIDS.
  • But there are no drugs that can rid your body of the virus completely. Nor is there a vaccination against HIV.
  • Once you are HIV infected you need to take anti-retroviral drugs for the rest of your life, and do this as the doctor prescribes.
  • ARV's are sometimes known as Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) or Anti-Retroviral Therapies (ART's). ARV's, HAART and ART's refer to the same thing.