What is the treatment for AIDS?
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HIV treatment involves a lot of different drugs.  The typical treatment is triple drug combination therapy.  It's also called HAART (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy.)  It's 3 different drugs that hit the virus in different stages of development.  There are several combinations of different drugs that can be involved.\n\nThere are also a newer drug called a fusion inhibitor that prevents HIV from attaching itself to a T-Cell.\n\nAll of these drugs treat the virus (HIV).  AIDS is a condition brought on my long term infection with HIV.  Triple drug combination therapy will increase T-Cell counts & reduce the amount of virus in a patient - which will make them healthier.\n\nThese drugs all have side-effects & are a huge commitment to patients.  Missing doses of the pills can cause the virus to mutate and grow resistant to the drugs.\n\nThere are several treatments available for the various opportunistic infections that hit people with AIDS.\n\nTriple drug combination therapy has extended AIDS patients lives by many, many years.  Scientists speculate that people can live a long healthy life on these drugs.
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No! Where have you been for the past 25 years? HIV is a virus; you cannot cure a virus. There are treatments that can prolong your life if you are infected, but they don't always work for everyone. If you become infected, it is very unlikely that you will live out your normal lifespan, even if you have the drugs. And the drugs are too expensive for most people in the poorest countries where they have the highest rates of infection. There is no "cure" for AIDS!!!
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There are many medicines that can combat the effects of HIV/AIDS. These are mostly a class of drugs called "anti-retrovirals" that keep the virus from reporoducing.\nYou can find a database of these drugs at:\nhttp://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=ar-00-02
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http://www.avert.org/aids-countries.htm
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here's a cure to aids:\n\nSEX EDUCATION.\n\nit's very, very poor in most places, especially (emphatically) in the USA.\n\nif there was only a wide enough reach, there would be half as many STDs, and barely any HIV infections.
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there are plenty of antibiotics now that may increase life, HIV hurts the body's immune system because the bodies T-cells are infected, usually people don't die from HIV/AIDS but from common diseases such as the flu, diarrhea, common cold.
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The link below may help.  It has breaking news in Health.  The AIDS epidemic is always topical.
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There are currently drugs available that enabled a HIV positive person to live a normal life span. The treatment is not cheap, but for someone living in the US, HIV is not a death sentence anymore. \n\nThere are also studies underway that indicate that certain combination of those drugs prevent the user from getting HIV, similar to Malaria prevention drugs. Those studies look very positive, but a prevention is not a cure. \n\nTo completely eradicate the HIV disease, a vaccine would be required and that still seems to be some time in the future.
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What do you want to know, any treatment?
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We just have some treatments for cancer and TB.  I guess you can cure TB but I don't think they ever call it "cure" with cancer.  There are treatments for HIV that work with varying degrees of success.
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Promise Free Food. Find a cure for AIDs. Be best friends with Bono.
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No, the cure to AIDS is $$. You have $$, you have no problems.
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Thousands of people are suffering from HIV/AIDS. Plus, half of the infected people are in treatment. Plus, Mandela, the president is doing something about it and the government. I need 10 points. \nI'm in a competition. LOL
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Unfortunately you CANNOT cure HIV, however you CAN suppress it from becoming full-blown AIDS indefinately.  \nThe only way to do this is by going to the doctor often, getting the right antiviral meds (VERY expensive), the proper vaccines against other infections, and avoiding high risk for infection - avoid sick people, wash hands often, avoid hospitals if possible, cook food thoroughly, take care of yourself physically.\n\n"Surviving HIV requires a substantial amount of social support, education, and hope.  Quality medical care is essential from experienced HIV specialists as is a person's will to live, and willingness to become their own best advocate.  This often means that the person living with HIV/AIDS must learn or be able to work with his medical providers as a partner, doing his or her part to take the medications as prescribed, reduce the possibility of becoming re-infected with more HIV, but also to ask questions, and report any problems with taking medications and/or side effects." - http://www.guardianhealth.org/hiv.htm\n\nI'm betting Magic is taking all precautions to follow all these measures.  However, he is just as susceptible as anyone else to problems.  He would not be the first person to beat the odds, and some of those that have are regular, everyday people.
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No, there is no cure for HIV/AIDS. Ignore the idiots comment above, because if there was a cure for HIV/AIDS, the first company to have it patented would make so much money like never. Treating terminally sick people is expensive and the companies sure do make good money but they have to share the market, and the money anyone would get from actually curing the disease is huge.
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HIV and AIDS is treated the same across the United States.  Information is difficult to acquire as it is typically is discussed in very confusing medical terms.  There are 2 good places to start.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia has a website and they are the 'authority' on matters of infectious disease.  Wikipedia.com is also an excellent source of information which is easier to understand.
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At the present time, there is no cure for AIDS. Treatment stresses aggressive combination drug therapy when possible. The use of multi-drug therapies has significantly reduced the number of U.S. deaths resulting from AIDS. The potential exists to possibly prolong life indefinitely using these and other drug therapies to boost the immune system, keep the virus from replicating, and ward off opportunistic infections and malignancies. Prognosis after the latency period depends on the patient’s specific symptoms and the organ systems affected by the disease. Patients with AIDS-related lymphomas of the central nervous system die within two to three months of diagnosis; those with systemic lymphomas may survive for eight to ten months. In America, the successful treatment of AIDS patients with HAART has actually led to a growing number of people living with HIV. About 25,000 infected people per year are added to the list of HIV-infected Americans.As of 2000, there is no vaccine effective against AIDS. Several vaccines to prevent initial HIV infection and disease progression are being tested. In 2002, reports showed a new “library” vaccine showed potential. The vaccine is composed of up to 32 HIV gene fragments that can induce a number of immune responses. In the same year, the British government worked with five African countries in a trial to find an effective gel that would protect women against HIV during sex.