Dementia

Early Treatment Improves HIV Related Dementia

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 27th, 1999

Early stages of HIV related dementia may be treatable and reversible, according to a study published in the September 11, 1999, issue of Neurology.

Highly active antiretroviral therapy, HAART, can reverse chemical changes and brain injury associated with HIV. The cocktail is a potent combination of three or more medications effective for preventing HIV from multiplying.

Patients infected with the HIV often develop cognitive abnormalities or dementia due to the infection's direct and indirect effect on the body's central nervous system.

"Although the exact mechanism is not completely understood, some of the proteins on the virus...

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