Clinical Trials For Aids

HIV is a virus that causes AIDS. It weakens the body’s immune system, and then attacks and destroys the immune system’s disease-fighting cells, called CD4 cells.

There are no exact symptoms to identify HIV/AIDS. Most of the people have no symptoms when they first get HIV. Some show symptoms after years. The symptoms vary from person to person. Most common symptoms are fever, headache, fatigue, and swollen lymph nodes. Often these symptoms disappear within a week to a month. Even if one has no symptoms, still HIV can be passed to another person.

 

One cannot rely on these symptoms, for diagnosing HIV. These symptoms may also be due to any other disease. And many people infected with HIV have no symptoms for many years. In fact, one in five U.S. women and men infected with HIV, still they do not know that they have it. The only way to know whether you have HIV is to get a test.

 

HIV/AIDS clinical trials are carefully designed studies that includes people and provides answers to  specific questions related to the safety and effectiveness of treatment for HIV/AIDS and related conditions. These are quite important, as there is no other direct way as to learn how different people respond to medications, treatments or therapeutic approaches. These are also known as research studies or protocols.

 

The clinical trials study the new experimental medications used to treat HIV and AIDS, FDA approved medications in new ways or in combinations, or medications to prevent or treat related infections. These also study ways to assist people, as how to  manage their HIV/AIDS medications and the long-term general health of persons with HIV/AIDS.

 

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