Articles related to "Antiretroviral Therapy"

UNAIDS provides valuable facts on how HIV antiretroviral therapy can prevent the development of AIDS in HIV-positive people so they can live longer, healthier lives.

The World Health Organization provides valuable information about HIV/AIDS - one of the most significant public health challenges across the globe.

Report from the World Health Organization and Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS confirms that HIV infection rate has dropped significantly in past eight years.

For an HIV/AIDS medical regimen to be effective, a combination of two or more antiretroviral drugs is usually necessary to reduce drug resistance.

Recent studies have shown that providing HIV-positive individuals with highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) may slow the spread of HIV in the population.

Starting an HIV patient on antiretroviral treatment requires them to be ready both clinically and mentally. The decision should be made by both the patient and provider.

HAART involves life-long adherence to a strict medical regimen. One should consult his/her doctor and understand all the relevant issues before commencing treatment.

Despite extreme poverty, Haiti has made remarkable progress in combating the HIV epidemic. Infection rates stayed in the single digits, and deaths due to AIDS decreased.

HIV/AIDS foster children require proper medical treatment. Sometimes, however, the line is blurred between therapeutic research and research conducted for other reasons.

Nearly 1200 children are infected with HIV each day, many of whom end up as orphans - along with millions of other children who have lost their parents to HIV/AIDS.

When Travis tested positive for HIV and Hepatitis C in September 2000, he was shocked, but it also confirmed his worst suspicion. "I thought I was going to die."

Explore various issues acounting for the growing numbers of HIV Positive women. Gender inequality in treatment and prevention is addressed.

AIDS is the final stage of HIV infection, which killed an estimated 2.1 million people in 2007, but some individuals have been found to be resistant to HIV/AIDS.

The number of Australians living with HIV has risen by almost 10,000 cases in the past decade and today there are more than 28,000 registered cases of the virus.

A new study conducted in South Africa shows that tuberculosis treatment medications may make HIV anti-retroviral treatment less effective.

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was shared by the discoverers of the HIV and HPV viruses. This article is about the discovery of HIV.

The lives of AIDS patients are hinging on new treatments, but preventing HIV infection is still a challenge. Here is a summary of recent developments.

Activists are calling for stepped-up efforts to treat women and children with HIV and AIDS. Success depends on mobilizing financial resources and political will.

Chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) is a disabling neurological illness. New study suggests it might be caused by the retrovirus XMRV.

Medical professionals utilizing the patient-centered idea of concordance rather than compliance will be better able to treat HIV/AIDS patients.

The World Health Organization recognized the need to publicize the growing AIDS pandemic by organizing the first World AIDS Day in 1988.

In 1987 Dr. Farmer co-founded the nonprofit "Partners in Health" to provide free medical care in central Haiti. Today PIH treats poverty and disease in nine countries.

Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has dedicated his life to bring health care to the world's poorest people in Haiti, Russia, Peru and sub-Saharan Africa.