Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety

Ting-Ren Lu

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• Editorial
  Challenges for HIV/AIDS Therapy
  Author(s): Da-Yong Lu, Ting-Ren Lu, Hong-Ying Wu and Jing-Yu CheDa-Yong Lu, Ting-Ren Lu, Hong-Ying Wu and Jing-Yu Che
  
  AIDS (acquired immune deficient syndrome) is a human infectious disease. AIDS patients, if not be treated, commonly suffer a gradual loss of human immune-defensive functions and finally die of infectious complications within 2 years after AIDS symptoms occur in patients. AIDS patients can be treated with a series of anti-viral drugs to decrease the virus-load and slow the pace of deadest symptoms of AIDS and prolong life-spans of patients by high active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). Even though HAART is very effective, HIV/AIDS patients can not be cured by HAART. And there are a lot of drawbacks in this therapy. Many new ways have been designed for HIV/AIDS therapy. In this editorial, we will address these challenges and treatment options to possible cure all HIV/AIDS patients. .. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-1052.1000e120

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