HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS

Introduction

HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a disease that is unacceptable by a greater segment of the society, a disease that is often considered to be easily transmittable and a disease that eventually destroys the body's ability to fight infections and certain cancers. After getting inside the body HIV it destroys the cells of the immune system while the body fails to make new cells to fight against the virus. It's a common mistake of perceiving HIV same as aids but in reality Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is actually caused by HIV and takes in to place when the virus has successfully destroyed majority of the body defenses that the count of immune-cell falls ( http://www.emedicinehealth.com) excessively below the limit or exposing the body to certain life threatening infections.

Discussion

Treatment

The key action for HIV or AIDS is the antiretroviral drug treatment that is also referred to as ARV's or anti-HIV or anti-AIDS drugs. Even though it is not a permanent cure yet it prevents people from getting ill for many years (http://www.avert.org). This involves taking drugs everyday throughout the lifetime of an affected individual. Another treatment referred to as the combination therapy involves taking a combination of two or more antiretroviral drugs and when a person has an intake of three or more anti-HIV drugs the treatment is referred to as Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART). The reason of taking more than one drug at a time is that with the intake of one drug the HIV starts resisting against but with the intake of two more antiretroviral the HIV resistance would be reduced to a great extent. Thus, the treatment would be more effectual and last longer. In order, to reduces the intake of the number of pills taken daily, certain antiretroviral drugs are combined in the form of a single pill ...