HIV Aids Treatment, Causes, Types, Symptoms, Medication And Facts

HIV patients will have to rely on certain medicines as their primary treatment method. You can expect to get an anti-HIV “cocktail” from your doctor. This “cocktail” helps to keep HIV from multiplying too fast and maintaining the immune system’s health.

A few years ago, HIV patients would have to consume multiple dosage of HIV medicine to keep themselves healthy. But that is not the case anymore as technological advancement has set in and made it possible for the patients to keep it down to a minimum of one or two dosage per day.

The medicines being used to treat HIV patient is known as antiretrovirals. Some doctor will combine a few of these antiretrovirals to come up with highly active antiretroviral therapy, better known as HAART. This will help to reduce the risk of unwanted resistance against HIV medicines. This will usually happen to those who are treated with just one antiretroviral medicine.

Doctors will usually look for the following factors when they prescribe a patient for antiretroviral medicines. This includes:
The effectiveness of how the medicine is reducing viral load

Will it help the virus to grow stronger and develop resistance against certain medicines? Doctor will be able to find out if the patient have been previously treated with any antiretroviral medicine.

Will there be any side effects and are you able to cope with it?
Will it be too expensive for the patient?

The patient will also be treated with medicines that are essential to fight against illnesses normally occur among HIV patients as they have weaker immune system compared to a normal and healthy people. Some illnesses, such as pneumonia are among the usual sickness found among HIV patients. This happens because their CD4+ are damaged and couldn’t fight against infection anymore.

Therapy By Using Antiretroviral:

Some of the well-known antiretroviral includes:

Lamivudine, enofovir, emtricitabine and abacavir – these are good nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors

Nevirapine, efavirenz, or etravirine – Nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs)

Tipranavir, ritonavir, indinavir, nelfinavir, fosamprenavir, atazanavir, saquinavir, lopinavir/ritonavir – Protease inhibitors (PIs),

Enfuvirtide and maraviroc – Fusion and entry inhibitors

There are usually two reasons why the treatment is considered as failed.
The patient refuse to cooperate and do not take their medication as prescribed. So make sure you discuss with your doctor if you’re experiencing difficulty to take your medication as prescribed.

Another reason for the treatment is considered to fail is when the HIV virus became resistant toward the medication.
Doctor will find out the reason why the treatment is not effective if your CD4+ cell count is falling.

HIV prevention is a matter of global importance. Despite much research there is no vaccine that prevents HIV infection. HIV can be avoided only by avoiding risky behaviours In U.S.A. the transmission of HIV among adolescents and adults is almost always the result of unprotected sex with an infected person or sharing contaminated needles.

The infection is preventable never mistakes needles and refraining from sexual intercourse oral, vaginal or anal. Risk can be substantially reduced by always using condoms for all types of sexual intercourse, and avoiding contact with blood, semen, vaginal fluid and breast milk of an infected person. Avoiding alcohol and drugs is also important in preventing the spread of HIV, not because a person can contract the HIV directly by drinking and using drugs, but because these habits often lead to conduct or enter into risky behaviours (such as having unprotected sex or share needles).

The most important way to prevent HIV and AIDS in infancy is to submit to HIV test all pregnant women. If the result is positive, we must immediately begin treatment before the baby is born to prevent HIV transmission. Among adolescents HIV is spread mostly through unprotected sex with an infected person or an exchange of needles.

The education of children is therefore extremely important to help prevent the sexual transmission of HIV, as well as other sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhoea, hepatitis B, syphilis and genital warts. Many STD cause irritation, sores, or ulcers of the skin and mucous membrane through which the virus is transmitted, if you have an STD, like genital herpes, for example, it was demonstrated that increases a person’s risk of contracting HIV if he or she has unprotected sex with someone who is HIV positive.

HIV is not spread through: casual contact such as hugs or handshakes, drinking from the same glass, sneezing, cough, mosquitoes or other insects, towels, sittings of water, knobs. In the United States have been reported only a handful of cases where HIV infection was transmitted from one child to another person, all of these cases relate to the direct contact with blood within the family. Typical of a child secretions (urine, saliva, vomit, feces, …) do not seem to transmit the virus, so the routine care of children with HIV are considered safe. Despite the general concern, there were no reported transmissions of HIV within a school or child care places. As the risk of passing HIV on the direct contact with blood, the staff in schools should be used on a regular gloves when a child has a cut, scratch, or is bleeding.

To reduce the risk: use latex or polyurethane condoms during sex, limit the number of sex partners, do not share syringes, drugs and equipment for various drugs; avoid sex with partners who have risky behaviours, avoid using tools that do not puncture the skin were disinfected. Remember: you can not tell if someone is infected with HIV just looking at him.