When to start

When to start

AIDS Treatment Update, Issue 61-62, January-February 1998
Edward King

In the USA, many researchers and activists urge people with HIV not only to `hit hard', but also to `hit early'. They argue that early treatment maximises the chances of achieving undetectable viral load.

Space prevents us from looking at the debate about when to start treatment in this issue. Advocates of `hitting hard' say that their arguments hold whenever treatment is started.

However, the burden and toxicity of a regimen of many drugs may be particularly heavy for people with early HIV infection who face many years of ongoing treatment for HIV infection that may not yet have affected their health in any way.

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