{"id":30449,"date":"2025-02-28T08:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30449"},"modified":"2025-04-10T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T05:26:55","slug":"anti-retroviral-therapy-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/anti-retroviral-therapy-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Anti-Retroviral Therapy Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Supreme Court recently directed all States to respond to concerns relating to periodic stockouts, transparency in tendering and procurement, and drug quality and certification processes of the of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) drugs for People Living with HIV\/AIDS (PLHIV).<\/p>\n<h2>About Anti-Retroviral Therapy\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ART is a<strong> combination of medicationsthat treat<\/strong> human immunodeficiency virus <strong>(HIV).<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>HIV <\/strong>is a virus that <strong>destroys CD4 cells<\/strong> (also called helper T-cells), an important <strong>part of your immune system.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Without the protection of CD4 cells, you\u2019re more <strong>likely to get life-threatening infections.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>While <strong>ART can\u2019t cure HIV<\/strong>, it <strong>can reduce the levels of HIV<\/strong> in your body.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Low levels of the virus mean your <strong>body can produce more CD4 cells.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This <strong>keeps your immune system healthy<\/strong> and makes you less likely to get serious infections.<\/li>\n<li>ART medications use a variety of ways to<strong> stop HIV from getting into your cells and reproducing.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>You usually take a combination of two to four medications that work in different ways to reduce the levels of virus (also called viral load) in your body.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taking a combination of medications,<\/strong> rather than just one, makes the treatment <strong>more effective<\/strong> and reduces the risk that it\u2019ll stop working.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>If your viral load is low enough, tests won\u2019t be able to detect HIV in your blood (undetectable levels).<\/li>\n<li><strong>HIV treatment <\/strong>is <strong>called \u201cantiretroviral\u201d because HIV is a retrovirus.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>This means it uses<\/strong> its genetic instructions<strong> (RNA) as a template to make DNA <\/strong>(<strong>most of the time, in human cells, DNA is used to make RNA).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Anti-Retroviral Therapy FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the purpose of anti retroviral therapy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is treatment of people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) using anti-HIV drugs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is AIDS?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is a life-threatening condition caused by the HIV.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is a retrovirus?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. A retrovirus is a virus that uses RNA as its genomic material.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livelaw.in\/top-stories\/supreme-court-hearing-pil-quality-of-hiv-treatment-drugs-285180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) is a combination of medications that treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30450,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30449","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}