HIV Therapy
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  • People with HIV always require individualised care.
  • Currently available HIV therapy does not eliminate HIV from your body.
  • If your CD4 cell count is around 350, or if you are ill because of HIV, you are advised to take treatments.
  • You are recommended to start treatment with efavirenz (Sustiva) with Truvada (tenofovir and FTC) or Kivexa (3TC and abacavir). 
  • HIV therapy which is not suppressing viral load to undetectable levels should be changed if there are other drugs available which seem likely to achieve this.
  • If you've taken a lot of anti-HIV drugs before then you might benefit from some new types of anti-HIV drug..
  • To work, HIV drugs have to be taken properly. This is more likely to happen if you have taken part in decisions about your treatment and are supported in, and committed to, taking it.