Antiretroviral therapy in Indian setting: when and what to start with, when and what to switch to?

Kumarasamy, N.; Patel, A.; Pujari, S.

Indian Journal of Medical Research 134(6): 787-800

2011


ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5340
PMID: 22310814
Document Number: 561015
With the rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy, there is a dramatic decline in HIV related morbidity and mortality in both developed and developing countries. Several new safe antiretroviral, and newer class of drugs and monitoring assays are developed recently. As a result the treatment guideline for the management of HIV disease continue to change. This review focuses on evolving science on Indian policy--antiretroviral therapy initiation, which drugs to start with, when to change the initial regimen and what to change.

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