HIV AIDS drug resistance

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Overview

HIV Drug Resistance occurs when microevolution causes virions to become tolerant to antiretroviral treatments.

Current scenario

  • Nearly all drugs currently used to treat HIV eventually stop working and the infected patient’s immune system is damaged to the point of AIDS.
  • A recent study estimated the percentage of the American HIV positive population with some form of drug resistance to be 76.3%.[1]

Reference

  1. ↑ Richman, D. D., S. C. Morton, T. Wrin, N. Hellmann, S. Berry, M. F. Shapiro, and S. A. Bozzette. 2004. The prevalence of antiretroviral drug resistance in the United States. AIDS. 18: 1393-1401.
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