HIV, aka human immunodeficiency virus, causes AIDS, which is an autoimmune disease. HIV is a retrovirus. Once a person gets contracted by this virus, there is no permanent cure. HIV cannot be removed from the body, but it can be controlled with proper treatment and therapy. Uncontrolled HIV can lead to AIDS, which can put one’s life at risk as it can be transmitted sexually, through breastfeeding milk, from pregnant mothers to child, through syringes/blood.
HIV treatment with antiretroviral therapy or ART, HIV growth in the body can be controlled. The spread cannot be stopped, but people can live a better life. Some of the benefits of HIV therapy and medication are:
- Undetectable viral load: One of the things that HIV medications help with is controlling the viral load in the blood. Antiretroviral therapy helps in viral suppression, which does not allow the virus to multiply rapidly in the body. If the viral load is 200 units per millimeter or less, the doctors know that the medication is working. If the blood test cannot detect the virus in the blood, then that means the medication is working, and the viral load is low.
- Prevent transmission: When someone has a low viral load, the chance of transmitting the virus to another person becomes less as well. Many researchers have said that having a low viral load prevents the transmission of the virus from one person to another sexually. Also, the viral spread can be lowered up to 1% or less from HIV-positive mothers to their child during pregnancy.
- Avoid drug resistance: HIV can mutate just like any other if the medications are not taken daily. This leads to drug resistance, which in turn limits options of treating HIV effectively. That is why taking HIV medications daily is highly important. This prevents the virus from mutating and makes the treatment effective.
Viropil is a drug that is used for HIV therapy and is as effective as an antiretroviral drug. HIV/AIDS cannot be cured completely, but keeping the virus under control will help people lead a better life and effectively minimize the risks. It also helps in lowering the risk of transmitting the virus to any other person.
