User

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
April 16, 2024, 02:20:55 pm

Login with username, password and session length


Forums Index

Stats

Members
  • Total Members: 37635
  • Latest: Ranoye
Stats
  • Total Posts: 773156
  • Total Topics: 66328
  • Online Today: 248
  • Online Ever: 5484
  • (June 18, 2021, 11:15:29 pm)
Users Online
Users: 1
Guests: 197
Total: 198

Search

Welcome


Welcome to the POZ Community Forums, a round-the-clock discussion area for people with HIV/AIDS, their friends/family/caregivers, and others concerned about HIV/AIDS.  Click on the links below to browse our various forums; scroll down for a glance at the most recent posts; or join in the conversation yourself by registering on the left side of this page.

Privacy Warning:  Please realize that these forums are open to all, and are fully searchable via Google and other search engines. If you are HIV positive and disclose this in our forums, then it is almost the same thing as telling the whole world (or at least the World Wide Web). If this concerns you, then do not use a username or avatar that are self-identifying in any way. We do not allow the deletion of anything you post in these forums, so think before you post.

  • The information shared in these forums, by moderators and members, is designed to complement, not replace, the relationship between an individual and his/her own physician.

  • All members of these forums are, by default, not considered to be licensed medical providers. If otherwise, users must clearly define themselves as such.

  • Forums members must behave at all times with respect and honesty. Posting guidelines, including time-out and banning policies, have been established by the moderators of these forums. Click here for “Do I Have HIV?” posting guidelines. Click here for posting guidelines pertaining to all other POZ community forums.

  • We ask all forums members to provide references for health/medical/scientific information they provide, when it is not a personal experience being discussed. Please provide hyperlinks with full URLs or full citations of published works not available via the Internet. Additionally, all forums members must post information which are true and correct to their knowledge.

  • Product advertisement—including links; banners; editorial content; and clinical trial, study or survey participation—is strictly prohibited by forums members unless permission has been secured from POZ.

To change forums navigation language settings, click here (members only), Register now

Para cambiar sus preferencias de los foros en español, haz clic aquí (sólo miembros), Regístrate ahora

Finished Reading This? You can collapse this or any other box on this page by clicking the symbol in each box.
« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Combo still good n effective after 10 years...  (Read 3699 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline newt

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,900
  • the one and original newt
Combo still good n effective after 10 years...
« on: August 07, 2006, 05:06:29 am »

AIDS drugs still effective after 10 years

News from the massive Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort Collaboration...

"Ten years after they were introduced in Europe and North America, HIV/AIDS drugs are still effective but many patients are not being put on them soon enough, scientists said on Friday.

Experts had feared the AIDS virus would become resistant to the treatments and deaths would increase but research published ahead of an international AIDS conference in Toronto later this month has shown it has not happened.

The combinations of drugs reduce mortality and progression to AIDS by about 80-90 percent but tuberculosis (TB) has become a deadly co-infection in patients.

"Ten years on these treatments still work as well as they did initially (but) there is a change in terms of TB becoming more important," said Professor Matthias Egger, of the University of Bern in Switzerland, said in an interview.

He said people should be diagnosed and start treatment earlier.

"If that would happen these drugs would even achieve more."

The findings of the Antiretroviral Therapy Cohort Collaboration reported in the Lancet medical journal are based on an analysis of data on more than 22,200 HIV positive people in Europe and North America who started treatment between 1995 and 2003." etc

People who started treatment with a CD4 of 350+ did better, very well even (see page 2).  This and other research is leaning me towards saying start treatment before your CD4 falls below 350 (like US guidelines), not 200 (as per UK).

- matt
Logged
"The object is to be a well patient, not a good patient"

Offline jordan

  • Member
  • Posts: 239
  • What I want is a celebration
Re: Combo still good n effective after 10 years...
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2006, 05:52:26 am »


this is great news - thanks for sharing.....I just had my TB test and it came back negative.
Logged
If you think your lonely now, wait until tonight.

Offline aztecan

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,530
  • 36 years positive, 64 years a pain in the butt
Re: Combo still good n effective after 10 years...
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2006, 09:42:33 am »
Hey Newt,
Thanks for the article. It reinforces what I still believe, its better to start treatment while a substantial amount of the immune system is intact rather than waiting until it is weakened severely or the threashold to AIDS is crossed.

By the way, as you know, this is my 10th year on the same meds. They're still working.

HUGS,

Mark
Logged
"May your life preach more loudly than your lips."
~ William Ellery Channing (Unitarian Minister)
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »
 

Terms of Membership for these forums
 

© 2024 Smart + Strong. All Rights Reserved.   terms of use and your privacy
Smart + Strong® is a registered trademark of CDM Publishing, LLC.