0 used to treat AIDS (= the virus that causes a serious disease that destroys the body's ability to fight infection): --
antiretroviral drugs
Management of the adverse effects of antiretroviral therapy and medication adherence.
They all had received antiretroviral therapy but patient no. 2 did not commence antivirals until 2 years after first presentation and then only received treatment for 1 year.
In areas with high rates of endemic tuberculosis, programmes to make antiretroviral therapy more widely available need to be paralleled by programmes directed at the control of tuberculosis.
Interventions to reduce vertical transmission include avoidance of breastfeeding where safe and affordable alternatives exist and antiretroviral therapy with zidovudine during pregnancy, labour and to the neonate.
They address whether leaders have the political will to provide treatment, or whether a country's health care infrastructure can withstand the influx of patients seeking antiretroviral drugs.
They suggest that wide-scale provision of antiretroviral therapy in conjunction with multiple prevention strategies has created the opportunity to change the course of the epidemic in the region.
In addition, the effect of including a measure of exposure to antiretroviral guidelines in the model is explored.
Treatment with antiretroviral therapy may delay the progression of disease, but the event may still occur within the observation window.
