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Ritanovir (also known as Norvir and Ritovir) can be used at any time after you have started taking anti-HIV medications in a combination therapy that includes a protease inhibitor. The fact that you have been prescribed Ritanovir is not at all telling about the stage / seriousness of your condition .. other than you are at a stage where medication has become desirable.
Although Ritanovir was an early PI (protease inhibitor - which is a type of antiretroviral drug) and is still commonly used, it is now very rare for it to be used as a protease inhibitor or for any other antiretroviral qualities. Besides being one of the less tolerable antiretroviral drugs at full therapeutic doses, one of the side effects of Ritanovir is that it slows the liver down and causes the blood levels of some other drugs to rise much higher than they otherwise would have. At therapeutic doses of the drug, this effect on the liver can cause some undesirable interactions; but in much smaller (sub therapeutic) doses - at which the drug is far more tolerable - Ritanovir can be advantageously added to a drug regimen in order to deliberately 'boost' the blood levels and effectiveness of other protease inhibitors.
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What is the advanced stage of hiv infection?
Advanced stage of HIV infection is AIDS.
AIDS is the third stage of HIV infection?
AIDs is the forth stage of HIV Infection.The four stages Of HIV are:Primary HIV InfectionAsymptomatic HIVSymptomatic HIVAcquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Is HIV harmless or harmful?
HIV is a harmful virus. The end stage of HIV infection is AIDS.
Aids is the third stage of HIV?
AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is not a stage of HIV infection, but rather a diagnosis given to an HIV+ person who has reached a certain level of decreased immune function. The AIDS diagnosis is based on the health of a person's immune system, not the amount of virus in the body.
What is The earliest stage of HIV infection is the?
Swollen glands
How are hicv and aid's related?
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. AIDS is the final stage of HIV disease.
What is the first stage in HIV?
you are sick first and then you get the sleep erge
Which stage of HIV infection is characterized by fungal infections or weight loss?
symptomatic stage nova net
Describes the symptoms of HIV infection in the asymptomatic stage?
In the earliest stage of an HIV infection the symptoms are identical to the flu, but once it enters the asymptomatic stage there are no symptoms until it becomes active again and the immune system begins to fail. That is why it is called the asymptomatic stage (i.e. without symptoms).
And does he have hiv are aid-?
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS whereas AIDS is the end result of the virus after the immune system is destroyed, and therefore HIV will precede AIDS.
What can cause you to get HIV or Aids?
HIV can be transmitted from mother to child. It can also be trasmitted through sexual contact or shared needles. Just huggibg or kissing someone with HIV will not give you it. AIDS is an advanced stage of HIV.
Is AIDS the first stage of HIV?
HIV was declared a new disease in 1981. The virus that causes it was identified in 1983.
