Art Therapy Hiv

Hiv medicine is called antiretroviral therapy or art.

Art therapy hiv.

1 lmu drive suite 2518 los angeles ca 90045 2659 phone. It s also called combination antiretroviral therapy cart or simply antiretroviral therapy art. There is no cure for hiv but antiretroviral therapy given as a combination of different drugs can slow the progress of the infection and reduce the chances of transmission to others. Graduate art therapy schools programs in california.

Doctors recommend taking a. Each drug fights the virus in. Art therapy involves the use of creative techniques such as drawing painting collage coloring or sculpting to help people express themselves artistically and examine the psychological and. Hiv medicine can even make the viral load so low that a test can t detect it.

Treatment with hiv medicines called antiretroviral therapy or art is recommended for everyone with hiv. Nonetheless vigilance of the safety of art including its neurotoxicity must continue. Antiretroviral therapy art for human immunodeficiency virus hiv infection is a treatment regimen used to reduce the amount of the virus in the body viral load. These are also commonly referred to as haart regimens and the terminology has further evolved to simply art for antiretroviral therapy.

Debra linesch phd atr bc graduate department of marital and family therapy address. Antiretroviral therapy art is currently recommended for all persons living with hiv plwh regardless of their cd4 t cell count and should be continued throughout life. There are more than two dozen of them and they fall into six main types. Loyola marymount university contact.

They re often broken into six groups because they work in different ways. This is called viral suppression defined as having less than 200 copies of hiv per milliliter of blood. Art antiretroviral therapy the medicines that treat hiv are called antiretroviral drugs. If taken as prescribed hiv medicine reduces the amount of hiv in the body viral load to a very low level which keeps the immune system working and prevents illness.

Regardless of its name art has led to dramatic improvements in people who have used it. The fda has approved more than two dozen antiretroviral drugs to treat hiv infection. Los angeles ca. People with hiv should start taking hiv medicines as soon as possible after their hiv is diagnosed.