Immune system therapies are essentially treatments that help the body by modifying components of the immune system to be more effective. part from drugs designed to attack HIV directly, a number of immune therapies are also being ivestigated for use by people with HIV for the purpose of boosting immunity and to try to correct theabnormalities seen in HIV infection.

How HIV/AIDS drugs are combined and the order in which they are given are important factors to consider when designing treatment strategies for patients new to antiretroviral therapy, says a new study funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health. When people with HIV start treatment using HIV drugs, the drugs keep their effectiveness for a great period when one of several regimens is used. HAART (Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy) employs combinations of anti-HIV drugs to help suppress the virus in people with HIV/AIDS. The goal of HAART is to combine three or more drugs from one or more different classes of anti-HIV drugs to suppress HIV replication and prevent progression to AIDS and death. Two key classes include those that prevent the virus from copying itself, called reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors, and those that prevent the virus from becoming infectious, called protease inhibitors. RTI can be brokedown into NRTI which stop HIV replications and NNRTI’s. HIV drug combinations can lose effectiveness over time and doctors must then adjust treatment. Combination AIDS HIV regimens are our currently most effective method in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Using this regimens we have been able to prolong lives, improve quality of life and even slow the transmission of HIV/AIDS.

 

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