Antiretroviral therapy has tripled the proportion of adults achieving undetectable levels of HIV
Sunday, October 9, 2011 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Over the past decade in western Europe there has been a dramatic improvement in the ability of antiretroviral therapy to keep HIV under control in adults with virological failure to drugs from all three of the original antiretroviral classes, and an accompanying decrease in the rates of AIDS, according to a study published Online First in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The authors claim that this effect is probably the result of several new drugs being introduced over the same period that are more tolerable, easier to use, and active against virus resistant to typical first-line and second-line drugs.