How To Take Your HIV Medicine

This Lesson:

• Describes how the HIV virus attacks the body’s defences, and discusses when antiretroviral medication (ARV) needs to be started.
• Emphasises that although medicines kill the virus, they do not completely cure HIV, and lifelong treatment is essential.
• Stresses the importance of CD4 blood tests and the role of the healthcare worker.
• Emphasises the importance of taking the medicine regularly.
• Informs the viewer that three different medicines will need to be taken which may be in a combined tablet.
• This lesson is part of a series of lessons on HIV/AIDS.