Strategies for HIV therapy

April 2008    View PDF    En español

The goals of HIV therapy

HIV therapy should be to:

• Prolong life and improve the quality of life;
• Suppress HIV levels (viral load) below the limit of detection (<50 copies HIV RNA), or as low as possible for as long as possible;
• Optimize and extend the use of current therapy; and
• Minimize drug toxicity, and manage side effects and drug interactions.