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Introduction
   Last updated: 21.06.05
 
This booklet is a starting point for anyone who wants to know about treatments for HIV and AIDS. It provides basic information about the drugs that fight HIV – known as antiretroviral drugs – and deals briefly with dosing, side-effects, drug interactions and drug resistance.

Information contained in this booklet has been reviewed by a panel of medical experts. For full details of side-effects and drug interactions, see the Product Information Leaflets which are produced by the drug manufacturers.

This information was correct at the time of going to press (June 2005). The booklet includes information on drugs which have been licensed in the UK or European Union.

This booklet has been written to help you decide what questions to ask your doctor about any course of treatment you might be considering. We don’t intend for it to replace discussion with your doctor about your treatment.



acknowledgements
This edition edited by Michael Carter.
Seventh edition, 2005.

NAM is grateful to the funders of this booklet series:
NHS London HIV Consortium and Elton John AIDS Foundation

Thanks for the assistance of:

Dr Fiona Boag
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London
Professor Janet Darbyshire
Medical Research Council, London
Dr Martin Fisher
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
Heather Leake Date
Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
Dr Paul Lister
Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton

June Minton
University College Hospital, London
Rosy Weston
St Mary's Hospital, London
Dr Mike Youle
Royal Free Hospital, London

All pharmaceutical companies which provided product information: Abbott Laboratories, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharma, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Sharp and Dohme, and Roche Products