HIV, AIDS, and ARVs: Take Your Antiretrovirals as Prescribed!
Becky Kuhn, MD, explains why it’s so important for HIV positive people who are on antiretroviral medications (ARVs) to take their medications at the prescribed dosages on the prescribed schedules. This will reduce the risk of developing a strain of HIV that is resistant to the ARV medication. This video is freely downloadable from www.archive.org . Visit www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http to learn more.Disabled accessibility: The transcript for this and many other AIDSvideos.org videos can be downloaded from aidsvideos.org . [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate this video into another language! Click AIDSvideos.org to to learn how you can help!!!]
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a doctor explained to me that once you have aids a t cell count of 200 or below and then the t cells go back up even to an undetectable level you still have aids because your system was taken to that low of a level
so you go from hiv+ to aids if your t cell count falls below 200. if your t count goes back up do you go from aids back to hiv+?
This is Eric; I’m not a doctor. Google “National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention” and call them to speak to a counselor, or make an appointment and ask your doctor.
I have a question, what does an hiv rash look like? can it be one dot on ur arm and one dot on ur stomach each the size of a pimple but not? do they have puss? do they spread when you scratch them? please answer me
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the info. I’m guessing that missing one day (for whatever reason) wouldn’t be too bad, but a few days in a row might have disasterous consequences.
This is Eric; I’m not a doctor. “Missing even a few doses of antiretroviral medications can lead to drug resistant strains of HIV.” [Kalichman & Rompa, "HIV treatment adherence and unprotected sex practices in people receiving antiretroviral therapy," Sex Transm Inf 2003;79;59-61, citing Sande MA, Volberding PA. The medical management of AIDS. Philadelphia: WB Saunders, 2000.] Try your very best to take your medication exactly as prescribed.
What if you only miss one day one time? Will that give the virus an opportunity to mutate?
Thanks for this wonderful series on HIV/AIDS. The information/facts need to be made as public as possible.
Thank you for this information.
never knew about these types of medicines…