Regardless of its name art has led to dramatic improvements in people who have used it.
Art therapy hiv.
The acronym cart stands for combination antiretroviral therapy.
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If taken as prescribed hiv medicine reduces the amount of hiv in the body viral load to a very low level which keeps the immune system working and prevents illness.
They re often broken into six groups because they work in different ways.
Art therapy involves the use of creative techniques such as drawing painting collage coloring or sculpting to help people express themselves artistically and examine the psychological and.
This refers to the combinations of drugs that are used to keep hiv infections under control.
Each drug fights the virus in.
Nonetheless vigilance of the safety of art including its neurotoxicity must continue.
Antiretroviral therapy art is currently recommended for all persons living with hiv plwh regardless of their cd4 t cell count and should be continued throughout life.
The fda has approved more than two dozen antiretroviral drugs to treat hiv infection.
Hiv medicine can even make the viral load so low that a test can t detect it.
There is no cure for hiv but antiretroviral therapy given as a combination of different drugs can slow the progress of the infection and reduce the chances of transmission to others.
Hiv medicine is called antiretroviral therapy or art.
Art antiretroviral therapy the medicines that treat hiv are called antiretroviral drugs.
Treatment with hiv medicines called antiretroviral therapy or art is recommended for everyone with hiv.
Hiv medicines help people with hiv live longer healthier lives and reduce the risk of hiv transmission.
These are also commonly referred to as haart regimens and the terminology has further evolved to simply art for antiretroviral therapy.
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People with hiv should start taking hiv medicines as soon as possible after their hiv is diagnosed.
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There are more than two dozen of them and they fall into six main types.
Antiretroviral therapy art for human immunodeficiency virus hiv infection is a treatment regimen used to reduce the amount of the virus in the body viral load.
It s also called combination antiretroviral therapy cart or simply antiretroviral therapy art.