Resistance of HIV to drug therapy in recent years has doubled.
According to the newspaper “Izvestia”, Russia has increased the number of patients with HIV that is harder to treat. Chief specialist
Ministry of health on HIV Yevgeny Voronin said in an interview that “resistance is now observed in 7% of patients, whereas 3-4 years ago the figure was 3-4%”. The expert noted: if the number of resistant to therapy patients will grow to 10% of patients, there is a risk of rapid spread of infection.
Why is there resistance to drugs? First of all, scholars point to insufficient level of an antiretroviral drug in the blood of patients. According to the rules of treatment, the drugs should be disinclined to accept every 24 hours. If the medication is not taken within 30 hours, its concentration in the human body decreases. In such circumstances, the virus can begin to mutate, and this mutation gives resistance to treatment.
In addition, you need to consider the individual characteristics of the patients and prescribe a course of treatment in accordance with these nuances. For example, to develop individual therapy is necessary for patients with an active metabolism, the body which metabolizes medications faster. But a personalized approach to treatment requires the conduct of individual studies and tests – in fact, in each case of the disease. In Russia, this practice of treatment yet.
We will remind, last summer, became aware of the fact that the epidemiological situation on HIV in Russia continues to deteriorate. Was articulated figures of morbidity in 2017: 71,1 infected on 100 thousand population, while in 2016 was 69.6 per 100 thousand population.
Earlier Magicforum wrote that scientists have developed a new drug for HIV that can suppress the activity of the virus for several weeks.