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One of the greatest victories in the battle against Aids was the discovery and the prescription of multiple drug therapies.
Just recently, some researchers have determined that an aggressive use of the triple therapy can render a person functionally cured of the disease.
But aggressive therapy has brought concerns in some in LA county, where a long term study has indicated that when it come to HIV treatment, beginning aggressive courses at ealry stages, although it seems to decrease the number of new HIV cases and deaths, is that it also dramatically increases the prevalence of multiple drug resistant HIV strains or MDR.
The leading researchers in LA county are not advocating a termination to the aggressive testing and treatment policy, but that each case be assessed carefully and to exercise caution to identify and monitor the prevalence of MDRs.
Models created in the LA county study, has so far indicated that in the period between 2000 to 2009, the prevalence of MDRs went from 4.79 of the cases, to 9,06 percent of the cases.
A solution would be to simply test aggressively, but to withhold intensive therapy in asymptomatic patients. Such a strategy still shows an effective gain on the suppresion of HIV, without the increase in MDRs.
Researchers also point to that in most individuals there is a reduction of risk taking behavior once they have been told that they have tested positive for the virus.
The leading researchers in LA county are not advocating a termination to the aggressive testing and treatment policy, but that each case be assessed carefully and to exercise caution to identify and monitor the prevalence of MDRs.
Models created in the LA county study, has so far indicated that in the period between 2000 to 2009, the prevalence of MDRs went from 4.79 of the cases, to 9,06 percent of the cases.
A solution would be to simply test aggressively, but to withhold intensive therapy in asymptomatic patients. Such a strategy still shows an effective gain on the suppresion of HIV, without the increase in MDRs.
Researchers also point to that in most individuals there is a reduction of risk taking behavior once they have been told that they have tested positive for the virus.
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