Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)

Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) is a combination of medications that treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART)

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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).

About Anti-Retroviral Therapy 

  • ART is a combination of medicationsthat treat human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
    • HIV is a virus that destroys CD4 cells (also called helper T-cells), an important part of your immune system. 
    • Without the protection of CD4 cells, you’re more likely to get life-threatening infections.
  • While ART can’t cure HIV, it can reduce the levels of HIV in your body. 
  • Low levels of the virus mean your body can produce more CD4 cells. 
  • This keeps your immune system healthy and makes you less likely to get serious infections.
  • ART medications use a variety of ways to stop HIV from getting into your cells and reproducing. 
  • 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. 
  • Taking a combination of medications, rather than just one, makes the treatment more effective and reduces the risk that it’ll stop working. 
  • If your viral load is low enough, tests won’t be able to detect HIV in your blood (undetectable levels).
  • HIV treatment is called “antiretroviral” because HIV is a retrovirus.
    • This means it uses its genetic instructions (RNA) as a template to make DNA (most of the time, in human cells, DNA is used to make RNA). 

Anti-Retroviral Therapy FAQs

Q1. What is the purpose of anti retroviral therapy?

Ans. It is treatment of people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) using anti-HIV drugs

Q2. What is AIDS?

Ans. AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is a life-threatening condition caused by the HIV.

Q3. What is a retrovirus?

Ans. A retrovirus is a virus that uses RNA as its genomic material. 

Source: LL

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