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Taking drugs on time

Roger Pebody
Published: 17 February 2012

For HIV treatment to work well, you need to always take your pills at the right time, without missing any doses.

Taking anti-HIV drugs regularly will mean that there is always enough of the drugs in your body. This will keep HIV under control. Not taking drugs as prescribed can result in HIV being harder to treat in the future.

Click here to see our illustrated leaflet explaining the importance of taking drugs on time.

This leaflet is also available in Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian and Spanish.

Taking drugs on time

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This content was checked for accuracy at the time it was written. It may have been superseded by more recent developments. NAM recommends checking whether this is the most current information when making decisions that may affect your health.