Is there medicine for AIDS

Answer 1

The medicines used to treat HIV are called antiretroviral drugs. There are several different types / classes of drugs which act differently to disrupt different stages of the HIV life cycle. Antiretroviral drugs are generally administered in combinations (hence the term combination therapy) of three or four different drugs from two or three different classes. The individual drugs are too numerous to list here, but the following link provides a good up-to-date listing of both the drugs and classes of drugs currently in use:

http://www.aidsmeds.com/list.shtml

Answer 2

Everyone is different so Dr.'s try to come up with what is know as a "prescription cocktail" that is a different combination of medications that help an individual with HIV as much as possible. These medications help to slow to the HIV infection which are infecting all of your leukocyte's (white blood cells that helps the body to fight off infections), but once all of your leukocyte's are infected they can't fight anymore, so they go after the Erythrocyte's (red blood cells) the only semi-healthy cells left. Then eventually you have "full blown aids". You become extremely sick and weaker until you pass away, because the virus has destroyed all of your cells.

Answer 3

People living with HIV use antiretroviral drugs - ARV's. These can be used before a person has developed symptoms, but they still work if somebody has advanced HIV. The terms AIDS is rarely used.

Answer 4

There is probably a cure.Even a cure for cancer maybe.Think about it,how many presidents do you know that died of aids or cancer.The cure is probably for the elite!

Answer 5

Yes, there is medicine for AIDS, but no vaccine nor cure as of yet. Scientists are trying to work on those.

Answer 6

There is currently no cure for AIDS or HIV infection. Although antiretroviral treatment can suppress HIV and can delay illness for many years, it cannot clear the virus completely.