{"id":3690,"date":"2011-02-28T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=3690"},"modified":"2020-07-18T13:17:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T13:17:16","slug":"can-i-use-fuzeon-t-20-as-my-anti-hiv-treatment-in-the-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/3690","title":{"rendered":"Can I use  Fuzeon (T-20) as my anti-HIV treatment in the first place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you for your question.<\/p>\n<p>I should point out before I answer that we are not doctors but HIV treatment advocates.<\/p>\n<p>I am sorry to hear about your recent diagnosis. T-20 is a good drug but there are drugs that are better as first line treatments. Do you have any resistance to HIV drugs?\u00a0T-20 is only used in people who have extensive drug resistance. Because of the inconvenience of a twice-daily injection, T-20 is rarely used for first combinations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\/t-20\">For more information about T-20 please follow this link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You would have to use this drug at the same time as other HIV treatments to avoid developing resistance. T-20 should not be taken alone as a HIV treatment.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on starting treatment please follow this link to the i-Base <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/\">Introduction to Combination Therapy<\/a> guidebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello doctor\uff0c<\/p>\n<p>I live in China and was diagnosed of  HIV recently. I haven\u2019t started use any antiretroviral medication yet. I heared  Fuzeon (T-20) is a very good drug and it helps stop HIV from attacking healthy cells. Can I use T-20 as my treatment in the first place instead of traditional antiretroviral medication? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-access-to-treatment","category-all-topics","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}