How can HIV and AIDS be treated?

Cna it be treated or not?

it cant be trated unfortunatly but you can do things to maintain a healthy lifestyle to prevent aids from starting depending on how healthy your immune system is it could be a year 10 or perhaps never good luck

They don't have a cure as of yet, hopefully in the future, but they do have medicine that will make you live a decade or so by fighting the things that weaken your immune system.
Yes, HIV can be treated....but not cured.

The medicine that we have today to fight the HIV (Anti-retroviral medications -- ARVs) is pretty powerful. There are 5 classes of drugs that each attack different processes in HIV replication.

When HIV enters our immune cells, it turns them into factories making many more copies of HIV before killing the immune cell. ARVs prevent HIV from replicating and therefore decrease the amount of HIV in the bloodstream drastically. A person can go from hundreds of thousands of copies per teaspoon of blood, to "undetectable" or less than 50 copies per teaspoon of blood.

By limiting the number of HIV in the blood the ARVs are preventing HIV from overloading (and damaging) the immune system. It keeps people alive much longer than they would be without the ARVs.

The ARVs are not easy drugs to take. There are unpleasant side effects that can make them very difficult to continue taking. Some ARVs require secondary medications to help prevent side effects from the ARVs.

If someone doesn't take their ARVs
1- at the right time (as close to exact as possible)
2- with the right amount of food (no food, lots of food, high protein...etc.,.)
over 95% of the time, the virus in their body can become resistant to the medications they are taking. That is why there is a big push to get the "pill burden" (the amount of pills to take per day) down as much as possible. One pill has three medicines combined and can be taken once daily, though most people still take about 3-8 pills a day.

Once you begin ARVs, you are on them for life. So it is a big decision.

Hope this helps.
HIV/STI Prevention and Outreach Educator x 5 years
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Yes it can be effectively treated. Just like diabetes or any other chronic disease.

Depending on your counts, they may or may not put you on Arv's (anti retrovirals). If your levels aren't low, then they just test you from time to time to determine your need for therapy.

Whenever they do put you on they use a series of meds called "drug cocktails" to back the virus into a corner.

It is important to routinely take your meds preferably at the same time every day to avoid the virus from becoming powerful enough to mutate. then you have to change your therapy.

HIV or AIDS is no longer the death sentence it once was 20 years ago when books like and the band played on were published, we are so close....lets end this!
Clinical placement at a health Centre.