How can a single pill treat hiv?
Just a thirty years ago an hiv diagnososis
Was perceived as a death sentance today it can be managed with just one pill once a day how hiv is a virus that attacks t-cells or white blood cells that help fight infection and the hiv virus entres these t-cells and uses them like a factory to multiply eventually killing infected t-cells off completely when the body's t-cells camp falls below a certain level a person is considered to have full -blow AIDS this makesbthe body susceptible to all kinds of infections that can become fatal without those infection fighting t-cells soin the late 80s and 90s reseearchers developed a number of antiretroviral drugs that interrupt hiv replication at different stages of the virus's life cycle but when those treatments are used on their own hiv can become resistant to them that's because the imperfect but actually smart thing about hiv is that when it multiplies it can occasionally mutate making a slightly different veriation of itself and some of these variations are drug resistant so in 1995 reserchers tried a combination of three different antiretroviral therapies an approch known ad a triple cocktailit attacked hiv at different stages in the reproduction cycle not just the beginning and that makes the odds of an hiv virus becoming resistant to all three antivirals extremely low these combination therpies for thr first time turn what used to be preceived as a death sentance into a chronic condition but it also meam taking handfuls of pills a day for the rest of your life fast-forward a decade and scientists have managed to consolidate the triple cocktail into a daily pill because treatment adherence is so important in preventing drug resistance and maintaining very logical suppression one pill a day makes taking medication easier scientist continue to innovate to develop the treatment of tommrow
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Just a thirty years ago an hiv diagnososis
Was perceived as a death sentance today it can be managed with just one pill once a day how hiv is a virus that attacks t-cells or white blood cells that help fight infection and the hiv virus entres these t-cells and uses them like a factory to multiply eventually killing infected t-cells off completely when the body's t-cells camp falls below a certain level a person is considered to have full -blow AIDS this makesbthe body susceptible to all kinds of infections that can become fatal without those infection fighting t-cells soin the late 80s and 90s reseearchers developed a number of antiretroviral drugs that interrupt hiv replication at different stages of the virus's life cycle but when those treatments are used on their own hiv can become resistant to them that's because the imperfect but actually smart thing about hiv is that when it multiplies it can occasionally mutate making a slightly different veriation of itself and some of these variations are drug resistant so in 1995 reserchers tried a combination of three different antiretroviral therapies an approch known ad a triple cocktailit attacked hiv at different stages in the reproduction cycle not just the beginning and that makes the odds of an hiv virus becoming resistant to all three antivirals extremely low these combination therpies for thr first time turn what used to be preceived as a death sentance into a chronic condition but it also meam taking handfuls of pills a day for the rest of your life fast-forward a decade and scientists have managed to consolidate the triple cocktail into a daily pill because treatment adherence is so important in preventing drug resistance and maintaining very logical suppression one pill a day makes taking medication easier scientist continue to innovate to develop the treatment of tommrow
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