- HIV treatment can also prevent the transmission of HIV from a mother to her fetus or child during pregnancy or when giving birth.
- HIV treatment keeps you healthy by suppressing the amount of HIV in your blood. When left untreated, HIV infects CD4 cells and other types of cells in the ...
- Two of the drugs used in many HIV treatment combinations belong to a class of drugs called nukes (nucleoside analogues, or NRTIs). Because the two nukes in a ...
- Some people see a general practitioner (GP) or family physician who is knowledgeable and has experience treating people with HIV. Others see an infectious ...
- My advice is: Gather information, become knowledgeable and know what HIV is, what it does and what’s out there in terms of support. The more you know about ...
- Drug resistance refers to HIV that is resistant to certain HIV drugs and stops those drugs from working properly. Drug-resistant forms of HIV can sometimes be ...
- When one drug alters the effect of another drug - intensifying the side effects or producing new side effects or making the drug less effective - this is known ...
- “I had the worst side effects from my [old] meds…. I started my new meds in August 2012. Thank goodness HIV meds have improved. I experience no side effects ...
- To cover the cost of HIV drugs, most people with HIV rely on drug insurance plans - either private plans (usually through work) or provincial or territorial ...
- Nowadays HIV treatments can be very simple: Many people need to take just one pill a day to keep their virus under control. But one thing that hasn’t changed ...
- “My GP [general practitioner] is a compassionate doctor who spends extra time listening and talking to me, as he knows I’ve struggled with depression. ...
- “I’ve had a few blips over the years but when we’ve done a followup I’ve been undetectable again every time. When there’s a blip, I get concerned but ...