Major improvements in HIV treatment
Research and development in HIV treatment has significantly improved the quality of life for people with HIV. Fewer drugs have to be taken and effective treatment options that prevent opportunistic infections from happening are available.
Steady falling death rates
Nowadays HIV treatment focuses on the long-term management of the disease. Antiretroviral therapies are available to successfully prevent HIV from spreading in the body. In particular, the introduction of combination therapies (HAART) caused a significant decline in HIV and AIDS-related deaths. The likelihood of developing drug resistance could be reduced by combination therapy and infections are less likely to occur.
Even people with very advanced HIV have experienced remarkable recoveries in physical health. New therapies resulted in risen CD4 counts and reduced viral loads. If you have to start treatment today your life span might be that of any other person living with a chronic disease that is under control.
More effective treatment
In comparison to earlier treatment options many improvements have been accomplished. Today's combination HIV treatments include effective therapies that may cause fewer side effects and are easier to adhere to.
There are many innovative things to come. Extensive research in the field of HIV and AIDS hold great potential for better drugs with fewer side-effects and other treatment options. This research is also needed to find new therapies for people with drug resistant virus.
Even though there is no cure for HIV disease yet, continuous breakthroughs in research and development prolong meaningful lives and change HIV step by step from a fatal disease to a controlled chronic illness.
