{"id":1865,"date":"2024-11-01T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moomango.co.uk\/guides\/?page_id=1865"},"modified":"2025-01-20T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T15:13:44","slug":"is-starting-easy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/is-starting-easy","title":{"rendered":"Is starting ART easy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>This is usually as easy as taking one or two pills every day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are a few differences between ART and other meds though that are important.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is important not to miss doses of HIV drugs.<br \/>\nSee: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/adherence\">Adherence and why it is so important<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/resistance\">What is drug resistance?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Although everyone worries about side effects, these are rarely serious.<br \/>\nSee: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/side-effects\">What is the risk of side effects?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>You have a choice of drugs and you can be involved in this choice.<br \/>\nSee: <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/best-combination\">What is the best combination?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Once started, it is better to carry on rather than stop and start.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In practice, most people find starting ART is much easier than they thought.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15878\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tabs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tabs.png 514w, https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/tabs-300x80.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes. This is usually as easy as taking one or two pills every day. There are a few differences between ART and other meds though that are important. It is important not to miss doses of HIV drugs. See: Adherence &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1547,"menu_order":26,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1865","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18448,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1865\/revisions\/18448"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}