Combination therapy advances. Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-6003. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Combination therapy advances.
Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-6003. A new class of drugs, protease inhibitors, has been shown to help prevent disease progression and death in people with low T4 cell counts. A combination treatment reduces the amount of HIV in the body, and also raises T4 cell counts even in people who are already taking AZT . Another protease inhibitor, when taken together with other anti-HIV drugs, dramatically reduces the amount of HIV in the blood. Deciding which combination to take depends on many factors, such as side effects, numbers of pills required, and the combinations that reduce HIV antibodies the longest.