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Q: How to Manage AIDS HIV Treatment Side Effects?
The most common side effects associated with the drugs usually used in HIV and AIDS drug treatment are increases in cholesterol, shifts in the way the body stores fat, nausea, dizziness, headache and stomach discomfort. Because these side effects can be severe, doctors usually form a strategy to manage them at the outset of the treatment regimen.
A: Things You’ll Need:
* Physician
* Immunodeficiency specialist
Minimize Your HIV and AIDS Treatment Side Effects
Step1
Prepare and plan ahead. You should know what to expect when it comes to the side effects of HIV and AIDS drug treatment. Always ensure that you have a full and complete understanding of the side effects associated with a specific HIV or AIDS medication before you begin using it.
Step2
Communicate with your doctor. You are seldom so limited in your options that you cannot tailor your drug treatment regimen to some extent. If, for example, a certain drug is known to induce vomiting and that’s something you feel strongly about avoiding, tell your doctor. He will very likely be able to suggest another drug you can use that will be gentler on your stomach.
Step3
Work with your doctor to anticipate the side effects of certain drugs and implement a plan to deal with them. If, for example, your doctor expects your cholesterol will rise as the result of taking a certain HIV or AIDS medicine, she can prescribe another drug designed to lower it. In other words, your treatment regimen can be designed to include drugs that will minimize the side effects you experience.
Step4
Expect to manage, not eliminate, side effects. There is no such thing as an HIV or AIDS drug treatment regimen that is completely devoid of unwanted side effects. However, keep in mind that there is, to a degree, a misconception among the general public about the severity of the side effects of HIV and AIDS medications–serious side effects are, in fact, seen in only a small percentage of users.
Step5
Have your doctor transition you to a different treatment regimen if you find you are unable to manage your side effects to a comfortable degree. Because there is currently no cure for HIV or AIDS, treatment is designed to improve the quality of life of afflicted individuals. Your doctor should be happy to accommodate you if you’re not satisfied with your current treatment program.
Q: Does drug addiction treatment really reduce the spreading of AIDS/HIV?
I know that they’re interrelated, so I was just wondering if drug addiction treatment would lessen HIV victims.
A: Yes, drug addiction treatment would be able to reduce the spread of AIDS/HIV. Drug users are more likely to get affected by such diseases, so treating drug addicts will definitely help. Studies have shown that drug injectors who are not letting themselves be subjected to treatment are six times more likely to get infected with HIV or AIDS, as opposed to those who let themselves be subjected to treatment.
Q: Have drug treatment lowered HIV/AIDS cases in the US?
A: Drug treatment itself has not lowered HIV/AIDS cases in the US. However, people are becoming more and more aware of the disease and how to protect themselves from contracting it. Awareness has helped to lower HIV/AIDS cases but not actual drug treatment.
Q: what is the latest drug discovered for the treatment of HIV?
what is the latest drug discovered for the treatment of HIV
A: The best new drug to come along is Fuzeon, or T-20. It’s a new class of drug called a Fusion Inhibitor. It prevents HIV from attaching to a T-cell.
Unfortunatly, it’s only an injectable drug right now – which makes it difficult for many people to take. It’s also very expensive. It’s really only being used as “salvage therapy” at the moment. Salvage Therapy is when a person with AIDS can no longer take other medications because they have built up resistance to the drugs. Fuzeon can help bring them back to health.
There will be an oral version sometime in the future, but research takes time.
Q: what two properties must a drug possess to function as a suitable orallly delivered HIV treatment?
A: show signs of abatement
alkaline perhaps
no side effects on skin and other organs
Q: What’s the connection between drug use and HiV? Will addiction treatment lessen the spreading of HIV and AIDS?
I do know that they’re somehow interrelated. I was just curious as to how addiction treatment could possibly lessen the spreading of the aforementioned diseases.
A: Drug addiction treatment would be able to reduce the spread of AIDS/HIV because drugs users are more likely to get affected by such diseases. Treating drug addicts will definitely help. Studies have shown that those who inject drugs who do not let themselves get subjected to treatment are six times more liekly to get infected with HIV or AIDS, as opposed to those who let themselves get treated.
Q: what level of sucess has been reached so far on hiv/aids drug and treatment?
A: Drug treatment has been very successful to this point. New drugs and drug combinations are extending the life expectancy of HIV patients. However, there are some strains that are resistant to current medications. If the current research does not produce a new type of treatment, the life expectancy of those infected will plummet.
Q: I am HIV postive but my partner negative and we would like to get pregnant. Please anybody know how?
I am HIV postive but my partner not.Please anybody with the same situation give answers . How is it possible and Does the HIV treatment drugs have effect on fertility and on the pregnacy?
A: Have you considered adoption? I’m not positive but i’ve heard if the mother is HIV pos. that She will pass it to the Fetus and the baby will be born HIV pos too. Surrogate mother??? or anything like that? Maybe you should Consult with a Doctor first. for the safety of the baby and yourself. good luck
Q: Has a drug/treatment/cure or whatever been found that could prevent babies from getting an HIV from their moms?
We all know that HIV and AIDS can be spread through bodily fluids. That means that babies can catch the HIV if their mother is infected with it while their inside their mother’s womb.
So, I was wondering….
Is there a cure or another effective treatment been found that could prevent the HIV infection from spreading to the baby?
It’s sad that the baby has to die because of the mom. But is there a way that the baby can live healthily without the HIV?
A: This site might give you more information than I can http://www.avert.org/pregnancy.htm
In the United States it is very rare that a child is born with HIV. Medical care advances allow many women who are HIV + to have a completely healthy baby. Medications given prior to and during child birth reduce the rate of transmission significantly. Although HIV can be passed during breastfeeding there are options.
A doctor, who specializes in HIV and pregnancy is important.
In the 1980’s and 1990’s many children were born with HIV and those children are adults now, though they still have HIV they are living productive lives.
Q: Is Hepititis C a side affect of HIV drugs? And is it normal to discontinue HIV treatment once diagnosed?
My friend is HIV positive and has just found out he now has Hep C. Just wanted some info on the two together and what it means for him? Is it life threatening? Is Hep C treatable?
A: No Hepatitis C is not caused by HIV drugs. Hepatits C is a disease caused by a virus. HIV is an immunocompromised condition , meaning the ability of a peron to fight infections is reduced, hence person becomes more suspeptioble to various infections. this is one possible link between the two.
Hepatits C is generally acquired by Blood tranfusion …did ur friend receive blood transfusion in the past ? HIV is transmitted by transfusion as well …so there is a another possible link here.
as far as second part of the question is concerned, No its is generally not recommened to stop drugs once it is started. also u must remember drugs given for HIV or antiretroviral drugs donot actually cure HIV, it only reduces the viral load so as to reduce the chance of infection.
Q: How much does HIV treatment in Mexico cost for an expatriate?
Without insurance, how can an expatriate find adequate HIV treatment in Mexico at a reasonable cost, including appropriate first-line antiretroviral drugs.
A: .
If you don’t have seguro social (mexican medicare) You can go to La Condesa clinic, and you can get free treatment, because in Mexico the care of AIDS, is treated as a human rigth.
If your question is real emailme.
Q: Should immigrants with hiv be allowed to come to the states for treatment?
Should illegal aliens with HIV also be deported? Will taxpayers be paying for their treatment?
How do you feel about this decision to allow people with diseases into the U.S. knowing the taxpayers will foot the bill for these people?
I am all for Legal immigrants, but do not believe if they have health issues they should be allowed to enter unless they can pay for their own medical treatment and not a burden on taxpayers, do you agree?
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Doctors see hope for treatment with the end of a federal ban on immigrants who are HIV-positive
By Jennifer Brown
The Denver Post
Posted: 01/31/2010 01:00:00 AM MST
Colorado doctors who care for patients with the virus that causes AIDS hope a new federal law will help destigmatize the disease and push immigrants to seek treatment.
Until this month, the United States banned people with HIV from traveling into the country. Testing positive for the virus also was grounds for denying a green card to live here permanently.
Widespread fear of deportation among Colorado’s immigrant community — mostly people from Mexico but also those from African countries — has kept immigrants from getting treatment and even getting tested for the virus, doctors said.
“This will improve the outcomes for immigrants with HIV here,” said Dr. Tom Campbell, head of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “They’re not going to be afraid to come in and get treated.”
Campbell cared for a young undocumented immigrant last summer who had never had treatment for HIV and was admitted to the hospital with AIDS-related pneumonia.
“He was not surprised when we told him he had HIV,” said Campbell, who suspects the man had known for a while.
Avoiding detection
Immigrants with HIV who would have remained healthy on drug treatment often avoid seeing a doctor and end up with AIDS — mainly because they don’t want any record of having the virus, worrying it could affect their immigration status now or in the future.
AIDS activists have argued for years that including HIV on the list of infectious diseases — among tuberculosis and syphilis — that can preclude entry into the country was illogical. Unlike tuberculosis, the only way to transmit HIV is through intimate contact.
“There was no medical basis for having HIV on this list in the first place,” Campbell said. “It was a political decision . . . based on irrational fear and stigma.”
International health officials have not held an AIDS conference in the United States in two decades, since a Dutch AIDS educator with HIV was held for several days trying to enter the United States. The last international AIDS conference held in this country was in San Francisco in 1990.
The lifting of the HIV ban through a change in immigration law was pushed by Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, and signed into law by President Barack Obama last fall. It took effect this month.
Clinic gathering clients
About 10 percent of the 1,400 patients at the university’s infectious diseases division and Colorado Center for AIDS Research are immigrants, and the university recently opened a new HIV clinic just for immigrants. It has 14 patients so far — two-thirds are from Mexico and came to the U.S. for work, while the rest are from Africa, said Dr. Jose Castillo, a university physician who runs the clinic.
A 60-year-old woman from Ethiopia who believes she contracted the virus at a dental clinic back home is among Castillo’s patients. Martha, who doesn’t want her full name used because of the stigma associated with HIV, came to Denver in 2007 to help care for her grandchildren.
She said she didn’t know she was HIV positive when she filled out her visa paperwork to visit the U.S. After about four months in Colorado, Martha applied for a green card and had to take a blood test. When she found out she had HIV, she and her daughter feared immigration officials would ship the whole family back to Ethiopia.
“I said, ‘Oh, my God!’ ” recalled her daughter, Lydia, who also did not want her full name published. “Where were they going to send us? I was worried too much.”
After two years, including home visits by immigration officials, Martha was granted a waiver and received a green card despite her HIV status. She takes one pill each day and feels healthy, she said.
Jennifer Brown: 303-954-1593 or jenbrown@denverpost.com
Read more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14303362?source=rss#ixzz0eDK8WnWX
A: No, They should not be allowed to come to U.S. for treatment. But since U.S. has drugs/medicines for treating this disease, U.S. should give those drugs to those countries where these infected people live and let them be treated there in their own countries.Cost differences in donating medicines for diseased to be treated in their own countries and allowing diseased to come here and be treated here-at taxpayers expense-is obvious. We should help all those we can, but at the same time we should not be WASTEFUL CHARLATANS-as some of those Doctors appear to be.-considering our U.S. financial/economic mess that we`re in.
Q: truvda & kalerta only for HIV treatment? ERGENT NEED HELP!?
A friend of mine is on a drug called TRUVADA AND KALETRA
he claims that these drugs are for his prostate cancer but when i looked the drugs up it only talks about HIV treatment and i have had unprotected sex with him. does anyone know if those drugs can be used to treat cancer? or am I being lied to? plz help
A: I am infected with Hiv-Aids,for 3 years now, you are being lied to. These are a couple of twenty something hiv meds available. I suggest that you go and get yourself tested as soon as possiable and do’nt have unproteted sex with him no more.Her is a website dedicated to hiv information. It is wwwhivplusmag.com, it is very informative.
Terry.
Q: Can anybody inform me about the treatment available for HIV? What are the approved drugs for HIV?
A: HIV/AIDS:
http://www.fda.gov/oashi/aids/virals.html
Q: About HIV?AIDS??
Did you know that every HIV test has a disclaimer on it that says this test should not be used to determine the presence of HIV infection!? There are currently two tests available to diagnose HIV presence in a humans blood stream! They are called the E-lisa and the western blot. Both of them have a disclaimer that say This test should not be used to determine the presence of HIV infection? This is not a rant! I was wondering about the people out there who have tested positive for HIV if they ever questioned this? If I tested positive for HIV I would want the testing method to be proven to be accurate! I have been told that the side affects of the hiv treatment drugs are the same as the supposed symptoms of hiv. So, if someone took a test that stated it is not a true guidline to tell whether or not you have hiv and it said you did have hive but remember that the test says it should not be considered accurate…Then that person took medication that made them sick…What does that mean?
A: No, that is not the case. Screening tests in current use and confirmatory tests such as Western Blots have no such “disclaimer”.
The tests that have this “disclaimer” are not diagnostic HIV tests, they are viral load tests such as the Roche Amplicor HIV-1 Monitor test.
Viral load tests should not be used for for making the HIV diagnosis because they are not sensitive enough: they are designed for quantifying the amount of HIV particles in the blood of people who have already been diagnosed with HIV.
The FDA site (below) lists the current HIV tests approved by the FDA in the US. Some of the tests are diagnostic (used for making the diagnosis) some are used for screening blood and tissue donations, and some are used for monitoring the course of an HIV infection which has already been diagnosed (viral load testing). Some are to test for other viruses such as Hepatitis B or C.
http://www.fda.gov/Cber/products/testkits.htm
You can also click on individual tests to bring up a copy of the actual test insert. I suggest you read these yourself if you are interested, rather than rely on misinformation from AIDS Denialist websites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_denialism
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