Professor Chloe Orkin
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For most people living with HIV, it's very simple.
They take a single tablet every day or two monthly injectables.
But there's a group of people who have not been able to benefit from medical advances allowing them to take a single pill a day.
And these are typically people who were diagnosed very early on in the HIV epidemic when we were learning how to treat HIV.
And we gave inadequate pills and that led to the development of resistance to different types of HIV drugs.
So the result of this is that these individuals, unlike everybody else, have to take lots of pills and in many cases twice a day still for their HIV.
So effectively, time has stood still for these individuals, but also some people who were born with HIV have
have been living with HIV for a long time and have resistance.
So they also can't take the newer medications.
And one of the big concerns about them being on these complex regimens is that they have drug interactions with other commonly prescribed medications.
So this is a very new combination with a new class of drug, which is giving them the opportunity to take a single tablet.
This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
For most people living with HIV, it's very simple.
They take a single tablet every day or two monthly injectables.
But there's a group of people who have not been able to benefit from medical advances allowing them to take a single pill a day.
And these are typically people who were diagnosed very early on in the HIV epidemic when we were learning how to treat HIV.
And we gave inadequate pills and that led to the development of resistance to different types of HIV drugs.
So the result of this is that these individuals, unlike everybody else, have to take lots of pills and in many cases twice a day.
still for their HIV.
So effectively, time has stood still for these individuals.
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