AIDS Therapies

HAART More Effective When Initiated During Acute HIV Infection

Published in AIDS Weekly, February 5th, 2001

- by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- Highly active antiretroviral therapy is most effective at restoring immune function when initiated during the earliest stages of HIV infection, according to researchers in Australia.

G.R. Kaufmann and colleagues working at the National Center for HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research in Sydney, Australia, conducted a study to "compare the effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) on immune reconstitution in subjects with acute and chronic HIV-1 infection."

For this comparison, the researchers enrolled 58 patients with acute or chronic HIV infection and no history of antiretroviral therapy,...

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