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.