The mystery is lipodystrophy, a breakdown in the normal ways the body processes and stores fat.
Some people never get it.
In others, the body fat reacts to the medication right away, causing not only cosmetic disaster . . With the advent of antiretroviral therapy, more AIDS patients are living longer. AIDS activists have lobbied for faster FDA approval of HIV drugs and for making the drugs available to fight the epidemic in impoverished nations. Some patients on antiretrovirals develop lipodystrophy. This document was provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .