AIDS Therapies

Early Treatment of HIV: Is it Good or Bad?

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 30th, 2000

Early treatment of HIV may improve life expectancy, but it comes with associated adverse quality of life effects and high monetary costs, researchers in the United States and Canada point out.

"The optimal management of people who have HIV infection with a nascent low viral burden and high CD4 count is controversial," stated A.M. Bayoumi and colleagues from the University of Toronto, Ontario, and Stanford University, California. "Empirical evidence for a survival benefit from early therapy is scant whereas toxicity from early therapy may be considerable. We used a decision model to compare the health effects and costs of early and delayed treatment strategies."

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2000-10-30)

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