DECRYPTION – Antiretrovirals allow total control of the virus. Provided that the patient is taken care of early.
“Everything is going to be fine, you will never be sick, you will not transmit the virus to anyone, you will be able to have children, your life will be as long as if you did not have an HIV infection.” Here is the message of the Pr Olivier Épaulard, infectious disease specialist at the Grenoble University Hospital, to patients who have just learned of their HIV status. Current treatments are indeed very effective, very well tolerated, and have become so simplified that they make it possible – almost – to forget that one has encountered the virus responsible for AIDS. Provided they were tested in time: in 2020, 30% of the 4,850 patients concerned only discovered their HIV status at an advanced stage, very often because their access to health or useful information is limited or for fear of having to talk about it. “Many of our patients report the moralistic and intolerant behaviors they face, including in the medical environment.regret the Pr Matthieu Revest, infectious disease specialist at the Rennes University Hospital. That…
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