{"id":5921,"date":"2012-02-13T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T11:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2012-02-13T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T11:25:25","slug":"where-can-i-find-information-on-hiv-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/5921","title":{"rendered":"Where can I find information on HIV drugs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a number of resources you can use to find this information.<\/p>\n<p>The first resource is our <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/category\/arvs\">guide<\/a> to ARVs.<\/p>\n<p>The guide lists ARVs currently available. It also provides a one page summary on each drug. This includes information such as: generic and brand drug names, brief characteristics and potential side effects of each drug.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like information on managing side effects of the different drugs, please follow this <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/side\">link<\/a> to our guide on HIV and your quality of life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other resources you can use are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Medicines Agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ema.europa.eu\/ema\/index.jsp?curl=pages\/home\/Home_Page.jsp&amp;mid=\">website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The site provides information in two formats. The first is patient information in non-technical language and the second is more technical drug product information.<\/p>\n<p>The European Medicines Compendium<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicines.org.uk\/emc\/.\">Website.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This site provides a concentrated technical summary on each drug. Also know as the SPC [Summary of Product Characteristics], it includes information on how the drug works; how it was studied; side effects; contraindications [when it should not be used]; and why it was approved.<\/p>\n<p>The NHS [National Health Service]<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/conditions\/hiv\/pages\/medicineguidepage.aspx\">website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The American National Institute for Health<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/aidsinfo.nih.gov\/drugs\">website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The third and most personal option is to talk to your HIV clinician or pharmacist. This option is a good opportunity to ask direct questions on anything you\u2019re not too clear about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where can I find information on HIV drugs?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}