Treatment+of+AIDS

 AIDS Treatment -there is still no cure for AIDS, but modern advances are helping people diagnosed to live longer and healthier  ** HIV Treatment **
 * HIV multiplies very fast – the more HIV in your body, the weaker you are
 * medications can help reduce the amount of HIV in your body, as well as slow down the replication of HIV


 *  Patients with HIV each have their own treatment plans designed by their own doctors
 * These are based on a count of your Helper T Cells, and your viral load (amt of HIV in bloodstream)


 *  Three types of anti-HIV drugs:


 *  **Protease inhibitors** – interrupt HIV replication / keeps it controlled for periods
 *  **Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs)** – interrupt HIV replication and delays infections in people with advanced HIV
 *  **Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs)** – interrupt HIV replication but they do not slow down the spread from cell to cell 

 AIDS Treatment ** 
 *  HIV is a clever virus so it can change, or mutate, in order to survive
 *  to combat this doctors use combination therapy (combo of drugs)
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> people with AIDS are more open to developing other illnesses [[image:file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/User/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-5.jpg]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> they are also endangered by opportunistic infections (illnesses mild in a healthy person) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> doctors give immunization shots to prevent certain kinds of illnesses
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> or Alpha interferon shots to raise the level of protein in the body



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