Opportunistic Infections

Antiretroviral Therapy Reduces Need For Prophylactic Treatment

Published in AIDS Weekly, April 16th, 2001

by Michael Greer, staff medical writer - The advent of potent antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection has reduced - and possibly eliminated - the need for opportunistic infection prophylaxis, researchers in California argue.

R. Detels and colleagues at the University of California at Los Angeles compared the prevalence of opportunistic infections, occurring either as AIDS defining events or secondary to such events, before and after the widespread use of potent antiretroviral therapy.

The incidence of such infections dropped dramatically from the 1980s and early 1990s, when antiretroviral monotherapy or combination therapy was the mainstay of HIV...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2001-04-16)

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