HIV/AIDS Therapy

Epidemics could be eradicated with antiretroviral therapy

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 18th, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Extensive use of existing treatments could make HIV the next smallpox, even without dramatic reductions in high-risk activity, researchers argue.

"Current combination antiretroviral therapies (ARV) are widely used to treat HIV," according to J. X. Velasco-Hernandez and colleagues at the Free Metropolitan University of Iztapalapa and Mexican Institute of Oil in Atepehuacan, Mexico, Harvard Medical School in Boston, and the University of California at Los Angeles. "However, drug-resistant strains of HIV have quickly evolved, and the level of risky behaviour has increased in certain communities."

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-11-18)

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