ARVs Certification Review Exam Questions With Multiple Choices.
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ART - correct answer anti-retroviral therapy: not a cure, but controls virus and prevents transmission to others; prevents HIV virus from making copies of itself; the less HIV in your body, the better the chance for your immune system to recover (can fi...
ART - correct answer anti-retroviral therapy: not a cure, but controls virus and
prevents transmission to others; prevents HIV virus from making copies of itself; the less HIV in your
body, the better the chance for your immune system to recover (can fight off opportunistic infections);
drug combinations, number of ARVs
success--drop in viral load below level of detectability
issues--not always effective, uncertainty of duration of effectiveness, complex treatment schedules, very
expensive
infants treated with ____ within days of birth may rapidly clear ______ - correct answer
ART; HIV reservoir (viral load and viral DNA fall rapidly, but only minority of infants have such a dramatic
response)
changes in viral suppression over time a better indicator than - correct answer
a single measure--relying on a single viral load test could overestimate durable viral suppression by 20%
problem: small fraction of cells remain with latent virus even with ART - correct answer
must find location where HIV reservoir lies, how virus persists in a dormant state, extent/size of viral
reservoir
different CD4 levels stated to start treatment - correct answer below
200=officially AIDS, some go by less than 350 or less than 500 (WHO) for treatment--now should start
treatment regardless of CD4 levels if you test positive
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