HIV treatment
Viral suppression therapy
HIV treatment refers to medical interventions that manage human immunodeficiency virus infection.
The standard approach is antiretroviral therapy (ART), a combination of drugs that suppress viral replication, allowing the immune system to recover.
Effective treatment can reduce viral load to undetectable levels, preventing progression to AIDS and eliminating transmission risk: She's been on HIV treatment for five years and is completely healthy.
- antiretroviralDrug blocking viral reproduction
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
- viral loadPathogen count in body
- CD4Immune cell coreceptor
- adherenceFaithful following of something
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HIV treatmentHIV infection
Retrovirus compromising immune system
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