{"id":19528,"date":"2019-03-02T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19528"},"modified":"2019-03-02T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T09:53:00","slug":"hiv-treatment-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/hiv-treatment-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV Treatment: The Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><table class=\"caption_center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.thebody.com\/2019\/drug_classes_aidsinfo_680x453.jpg\" alt=\"People living with HIV work with a health care provider to choose an HIV regimen. Initial HIV regimens include 3 HIV medicines from 2 or more drug classes\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>(Credit: AIDSinfo)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>What Is Antiretroviral Therapy?<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidsinfo.nih.gov\/understanding-hiv-aids\/glossary\/883\/antiretroviral-therapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Antiretroviral therapy (ART)<\/a> is the use of HIV medicines to treat HIV infection. People on ART take a combination of HIV medicines (called an <a href=\"https:\/\/aidsinfo.nih.gov\/understanding-hiv-aids\/glossary\/1641\/treatment-regimen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HIV treatment regimen<\/a>) every day.<\/p>\n<p>ART is recommended for everyone who has HIV. ART can&#8217;t cure HIV, but HIV medicines help people with HIV live longer, healthier lives. ART also reduces the risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/aidsinfo.nih.gov\/understanding-hiv-aids\/glossary\/4605\/transmission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HIV transmission<\/a>. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebody.com\/content\/79696\/hiv-treatment-the-basics.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>(Credit: AIDSinfo) What Is Antiretroviral Therapy? Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the use of HIV medicines to treat HIV infection. People on ART&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}