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AIDS medicines
AIDS medicines are a class of drugs used to control and suppress the HIV virus in people who have AIDS. Fortunately, these drugs largely control HIV, but they have many side effects, and must be taken every day fail to avoid causing the virus to develop resistance to the medication.
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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A 39-year old asked:
Can I get aids medicines online?
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A 47-year old female asked:
What is average life span if I stop all aids medicines?
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A 41-year old asked:
Why is it difficult for children in Africa to get any aids medicine?
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A 38-year old asked:
I am having sex with someone with aids and that person with the aids is on antiretroviral medicine, what to do?
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A 33-year old asked:
At my grandmas rehab center, id see that the aids did all the work and the lpns told them what to do, and the rns passed out drugs. Is that the way its done?
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A 32-year old asked:
Can you please describe the drugs used to cure aids completly?
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A 43-year old asked:
Can you tell me is there any medicine or treatment for aids ?
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A 49-year old asked:
Are there drugs that prevent HIV from ever turning into aids?
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A 45-year old asked:
Can you tell me, are their medicines that prevent HIV from ever turning into aids?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Is it possible that a person with HIV that has already progressed to aids can lessen the disease by taking antiretroviral drugs?
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A 30-year old male asked:
Can a person live a full life with hiv/aids with the new advances in technology and medicine? What if they are tested and diagnosed at an early age?
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A 41-year old asked:
Why do docs treat aids with immunosuppressive drugs?
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A 29-year old female asked about a 31-year old male:
How long can alcoholic and drug addict live with aids?
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A 37-year old female asked about a 35-year old male:
Friend just got diagnosed with aids. cd4 = 10, took ARV drugs on thursday now feels weak. Is this normal?
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A 25-year old male asked:
Would rapper Eazy E have been save-able with modern medicine? He presented with aids, pneumonia, and t cell count of only 14. But this was in 1995
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A 32-year old male asked:
What are some of the non-drug treatments for HIV/AIDS?
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A 39-year old asked:
Can you tell me how aids/hiv drugs help patients immune system?
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A 25-year old male asked:
What can you do when you had sex and condom burst to prevent HIV/AIDS, IS THERE AN OVER COUNTER MEDICINE?
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A 20-year old male asked:
Is it possible for someone with a Hep C/multi sub-strain HIV co infection who uses recreational drugs to transition to AIDS in under a year?
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A 25-year old female asked about a 44-year old female:
My mom said the doctor said her heart is working 20%. My mom did meth for 15 yrs and also has aids, how long will she live? And if she continues drug
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A 47-year old female asked:
I am 47 yrs old. I've never taken a drug in my life (except prescription and OTC like Benedryl and sleep aids and melatonin etc). I came up positive on my urine drug screen. My meds can cause false positives but my boss won't believe me?
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A 38-year old asked:
How long does a baby with aids live, if born and living in the u.S.?
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A 43-year old asked:
How many thousands or millions of people in the u.S. Have aids as of the end of 2011?
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A 37-year old asked:
What is aids nowadays that people don't seem to die from it anymore? I remember the 1980's.
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A 34-year old asked:
What are some places in the u.S. You can call for help when you have aids?
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A 20-year old male asked:
Do aids get qured?
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A 46-year old asked:
Can children inherit AIDS?
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A 30-year old asked:
Is it possible to get cured of aids?
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A 31-year old asked:
How can you think that aids started ?
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A 32-year old asked:
Can you please describe the cause of aids?
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