HIV in 2011- The treatment of people with HIV infection is rapidly and constantly progressing as new research findings become available. With more than 20 approved ARVs and 6 ARV classes, health care providers caring for HIV-positive patients have increasingly complex choices regarding ARV therapy for the management of treatment-naïve and treatment-experienced patients. While these choices provide health care providers and patients with important new options, they also lead to new challenges. For the health care provider treating HIV infection, it is very difficult to keep up with the rapidly increasing amount of new information that becomes available through journal articles, conference presentations, CME programs, and other sources. The availability and understanding of this constant stream of new research data and information is essential for providing the best possible ARV therapies and therapeutic strategies that are most likely to lead to successful and durable ARV therapy in ARV-naïve and ARV-experienced patients.
Describe appropriate therapeutic strategies in the management of treatment-experienced patients with HIV; Use information about drug adverse events, drug pharmacokinetics and patient adherence to achieve ARV success to avoid morbidity and mortality; Describe preventive care for the important opportunistic infections and co-morbidities that may increase the risk for morbidity and mortality in HIV positive patients; Describe the importance of individualizing the care of each HIV-positive patient in clinical practice.
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Expires 1/25/13