{"id":40,"date":"2024-11-01T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/new\/guides\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2024-11-22T18:36:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T18:36:41","slug":"what-is-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/what-is-art","title":{"rendered":"What are ARVs and ART?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What are ARVs?<\/h2>\n<p>ARVs is short for antiretrovirals.<\/p>\n<p>ARVs are HIV drugs because HIV is a retrovirus.<\/p>\n<h2>What is ART?.<\/h2>\n<p>ART stands for <strong>A<\/strong>nti<strong>R<\/strong>etroviral <strong>T<\/strong>reatment.<\/p>\n<p>This is a combination of two or three active ARVs.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes these drugs are combined in a single pill.<\/p>\n<p>Some ARVs need a booster drug. Either ritonavir or cobicistat is used to increases the levels of another drug.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Seeing people get better on ART is <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>without a doubt the most extraordinary <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>thing I have ever seen. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It made me become an activist. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>\u2014 Polly, London \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><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>What are ARVs? ARVs is short for antiretrovirals. ARVs are HIV drugs because HIV is a retrovirus. What is ART?. ART stands for AntiRetroviral Treatment. This is a combination of two or three active ARVs. Sometimes these drugs are combined &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1547,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-guides.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","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=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17657,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/17657"}],"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=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}