HIV Treatment: Early Administration Of Antiretroviral Therapy Can Improve Survival
Friday, April 10, 2009 - 23:07
in Health & Medicine
The first antiretroviral treatments appeared in 1996. Since then, new and better drugs have been discovered that have almost turned AIDS into a chronic disease. Nevertheless, there is still room to improve the performance of the the therapeutic strategies used in clinical practice. A new study suggests that early administration of antiretroviral treatment reduces the rate of AIDS development and death in HIV-positive patients by 28%.
