{"id":463,"date":"2008-05-21T10:55:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-21T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=463"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:25","slug":"what-about-quality-of-life-with-long-term-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/463","title":{"rendered":"What about quality of life with long-term treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quality of life is everything.<\/p>\n<p>For most people in Western countries the range of treatment (<a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/category\/arvs\">over 20 drugs<\/a>) means that getting a combination that is both effective and tolerable, is now pretty easy. Newer drugs in development may improve this even further.<\/p>\n<p>This is more difficult in countries where the older drugs are still the basis of treatment, including d4T (stavudine, Zerit) and to a lesser extent AZT (zidovudine, Retrovir). This is why it is important to improve both access to treatment and access to the best treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know with current meds one can live a long life with HIV, but can you tell how much of this will be healthy. What about the quality of life?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,26,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-living-with-hiv-long-term","category-side-effects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}