HIV education can help learners to not only develop and maintain safer behaviours, but also reduce stigma and discrimination towards people affected by, and living with, HIV. Nowadays, many countries have adopted the newer paradigm.
HIV treatment reduces the amount of HIV in the blood (viral load).Taking your HIV medicine as prescribed will help keep your viral load low.HIV treatment can make the viral load very low (viral suppression). ... HIV treatment can make the viral load so low that a test can't detect it (undetectable viral load).More items...
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Side effects from antiretroviral HIV drugs can include appetite loss, diarrhea, fatigue, and mood changes. However, not sticking to a treatment plan can cause the virus to become resistant to drugs and harder to treat.
If you skip doses, even now and then, you give HIV the chance to multiply rapidly. This could weaken your immune system, and you could become sick. Talk to your health care provider if you miss a dose.
“When a HIV-positive person is given ARVs, it boosts their immunity, but when a HIV-negative person takes them, it just undermines their immunity and interferes with their body organs.”
The guidelines state that the primary goals of antiretroviral therapy are to maintain maximal suppression of the viral load (i.e., fewer than 50 copies per mL), restore or preserve immunologic function, improve quality of life and reduce HIV-related morbidity and mortality.