AEGiS-CATIE: ANTI-HIV AGENTS: How long should treatment be continued?

ANTI-HIV AGENTS: How long should treatment be continued?

TreatmentUpdate 70, Volume 8, No 6; September, 1996
Sean Hosein

One research team studied the effect of combinations of anti-HIV agents on subjects newly infected with HIV. They think that these subjects will need at least 1.5 to 3 years of treatment to eliminate all HIV-infected cells. In a recent issue of the journal Science, a doctor reported that one of his patients who had been taking anti-HIV combination therapy for 78 weeks decided to stop therapy when technicians could no longer detect HIV in his blood or lymph nodes (the doctor did not reveal the names of the drugs used, but they probably included a protease inhibitor). "Within 1 week, high levels of virus could be found in his blood."

REFERENCES:

1. Cohen J. Shooting for the moon with drugs. Science 1996;273(5273):302.

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