Yes. We know more how to use treatment and more medications are already available, giving a good choice if side effects with one are difficult. This is a major improvement.<\/p>\n
Todays drug formulations have less side effects and require fewer pills and fewer dosing times each day – many are once-daily.<\/p>\n
In addition, there are new classes of medications that allow us to treat the virus that is resistant to the existing drugs. The monitoring tests have also been improved substantially.<\/p>\n
Nowadays, the life expectancy of a person living with HIV is very near the one of a person who is HIV-negative.<\/p>\n
This link is to a chart of currently approved drugs<\/a> in the UK from Introduction to Combination Therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yes. We know more how to use treatment and more medications are already available, giving a good choice if side effects with one are difficult. This is a major improvement. Todays drug formulations have less side effects and require fewer …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}