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HAART

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HAART highly active antiretroviral therapy.
HAART,
HAART
Highly active antiretroviral therapy, triple combination therapy AIDS The concurrent administration of 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors–eg, AZT and 3TC, and a protease inhibitor–eg, Indinavir in newly diagnosed HIV infection Effects ↓ HIV levels in plasma, ↓ opportunistic infections, ↓ mortality, ↑ circulating T cells. See AIDS, HIV.


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1) Some HIV-positive patients receiving HAART also develop "lipodystrophic" features, that is, loss of fat in some parts of the body (especially the face, arms, and legs) (2,3) as well as accumulation of fat in other parts of the body (such as the dorsocervical area, (4,5) trunk, and abdomen.
Risk-based testing was particularly likely among men who were aware of HAART, men who had ever had anal intercourse without using a condom, men who had been tested anonymously, men who had asked at least one recent new sex partner about his HIV stares and men who had reduced their risks after being tested (1.
Going forward, Oncolys Biopharma plans to conduct preclinical trials and begin phase I and II clinical trials that target HIV/AIDS patients with resistance to HAART (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy) by 2008.
 
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