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Hives And Advanced Stages Hiv
AIDS-related complex - ARC; Chronic symptomatic HIV infection
Treatment
Medications can successfully treat many of the symptoms of early symptomatic HIV infection.
Antiretroviral therapy slows the growth of the HIV virus in the body. A combination of several antiretroviral medications, termed highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), work well in reducing the number of HIV particles in the bloodstream, and as a result, increasing the CD4 count.
Although people taking HAART...
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