What is the importance of HIV treatment?
Treatment Reduces the Amount of HIV in the Blood Taking your HIV medicine as prescribed will help keep your viral load low and your CD4 cell count high. HIV medicine can make the viral load very low (called viral suppression). Viral suppression is defined as having less than 200 copies of HIV per milliliter of blood.
Why is early treatment of HIV important?
Early antiretroviral treatment lowered the risk of serious AIDS-related events by 72%. Early treatment also lessened the risk of serious non-AIDS events by 39%.Aug 10, 2015
What is the purpose of antiretroviral drugs?
The aim of antiretroviral therapy is to reduce the amount of HIV in the blood to very low levels. Viral suppression occurs when the count reaches fewer than 200 copies of the virus per milliliter of blood.