#HealthEdu : It is important to start antiretroviral treatment

my reaction when a patient tells me have stopped their ANTIRETROVIRAL drugs and their HIV status has changed from POSITIVE to NEGATIVE after a prophetic release by their daddyjiyo or mummyjiyo.

10 things to note:
1. Taking your ARVs diligently can reduce the virus to the point

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#nih #LongCovid #AIDS #genetherapy #antiretroviral #kshv #SARSCoV2 #hiv #909090 #wuhan #mrna #latenthiv

Benefits of staying on antiretroviral treatment

Drug hunters are finding that ancient virus-like artifacts in the human genome could offer new avenues to treat neurodegeneration, cancer, autoimmunity and even aging with antibodies, vaccines and antiretroviral agents nature.com/articles/s4158…

Autologous neutralizing antibody responses after antiretroviral therapy in acute and early #HIV -1 jci.org/articles/view/… (open access) Journal of Clinical Investigation Katharine Bar

This lady tested positive to HIV since 2017 and has been on antiretroviral meds. She recently had a blood test and it showed negative, How is this possible?

I thought the disease is incurable?

Our commentary is now free to access online “Return to Health” Is Associated With Blood Pressure Increase After a Year of Antiretroviral Therapy in People With HIV academic.oup.com/ajh/article/35… Thanks to OUP Medicine American Journal of Hypertension & co-authors Benson M. Hamooya MULUNGUSHI UNIVERSITY, SOMHS, Zambia.

TheOnly~KYEN⭐️ Here are 3 possibilities on why she is testing negative now.
1. False positive result in 2017
2. False negative negative result now
3. Effective antiretroviral treatment.
I bet you, it is the number 3. It is indeed true that HIV is currently considered an incurable disease.

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The lack of youth-friendly corners in most government health facilities in Gulu District is hampering the enrolment of young adolescents who are HIV-positive into antiretroviral therapy (ART).

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🥳Excited to share our latest paper published in #PLOSONE , evaluating routine antenatal data for HIV ART coverage estimation in the Western Cape, South Africa Leigh Johnson MeSH Consortium UCT Infectious Epi, School of Public Health UCT Division of Public Health Medicine UCT School of Public Health dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

TheOnly~KYEN⭐️ The antiretroviral meds reduce viral load. But she is still positive

#VoiceofKamwengeNews
The Uganda National Drug Authority in collaboration with police has impounded 500 tins of Government-supplied Antiretroviral Drugs (ARVs) in Kasese municipality. Abiaz Rwamwiri the NDA PRO says 2 suspects found in the illicit possession have been arrested.

Justin Lee I think that is the problem. I.e the kids are already sick in varying degrees. And we need to figure out something equal to antiretroviral therapy for them first to slow or stop Covid induced damages, then how to cure them. And have also condition for healthy children to be born.

Great review on something that comes up far too often- antiretroviral therapy for people with HIV in the ICU. Will LA ART provide better options in the future?? #HIV Matthew Brigmon

Continuation of antiretroviral treatment

“In partnership with Ministry of Health- Uganda ,AHF Uganda Cares pioneered the provision of free antiretroviral drugs in Feb 2002 at Masaka Regional Hospital, initially serving 100 patients

Subsequently, the first clinic was built & opened in 2005”
Henry Magala Country Program Director

Recent studies highlight concerning emergence of resistance to dolutegravir, a widely used antiretroviral in South Africa, among subsets of people living with #HIV .
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