Miscellaneous Published in the Bulletin of Experimental Treatments for AIDS Spring 2000 issue, by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. All 48 incarcerated, HIV positive persons were required to take every dose under direct observation by personnel at the jail. The results underscore the importance of dosing adherence. A lower viral load is associated with slower HIV disease progression in the longer term, even though there were no significant differences in CD4 cell counts after six months in this study.
Intestinal parasites are very common in many resource-poor countries.