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New drugs reduce AIDS cases
Tags: AIDS, AIDS treatment, HIV, HIV virus —
This emerges from a study conducted at European level and in the eleven hospitals that participated Spanish who analyzed the response to antiretroviral treatment for more than 91,000 people from various countries with the HIV virus.
The study shows that between 2000 and 2002 at 7.7 of 100 patients there was a case of AIDS, a figure that dropped to 2.3 in 2008 and 1.2 in 2009.
Improvement is also seen in patients a decade ago did not respond to antiretroviral treatment (about 4% of total patients), since in 2000 only 19.5% maintained a low level of virus in the blood compared to 57.9% in 2009.
According to the director’s HIV / AIDS Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, Daniel Podzamczer, “in ten years there has been a noticeable change in the course of infection in patients who respond to treatment when it did not previously , and a marked reduction in progression to AIDS virus. “
The investigators believe that a major cause of these improvements is the introduction of new drugs from 2007 that have overcome the resistance offered by the virus and have facilitated the monitoring of patient care is not allowing necessary to take such a high number of pills, or follow a very rigid schedule.
Podzamczer, coordinator of the Spanish level study, said that currently “can offer alternatives to patients who, ten years ago, you had nothing to offer, and now respond from virological point of view, have no complications, and follow with chronic infectious disease for decades. “
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