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Aged 36-40
Interview 28  

Interview 28

Age at Interview: 39
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 20
Background: A 39 year old gay male health professional who works part time. He was diagnosed in 1986 after unprotected sex with a HIV positive partner.
Brief outline:He currently has an undetectable viral load and about 900 CD4 cells. He did not respond well to earlier regimes, but is now doing well on 'salvage therapy,' although his medication has numerous side-effects.

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Explains some potential problems with HIV treatments that make it well worth HIV negative people avoiding infection with HIV.

 



But after you've failed one… a few drug therapies… And if you don't achieve undetectable viral load, ultimately sooner or later that therapy is likely to fail. Then the drug regimes do become more complex. And one of, one of the medications that I take is 4 large capsules twice a day. And I know people who are on heavier drug combinations. I currently take, I think I said, 22 tablets a day. Of which the majority are antivirals. And I think… one is for cholesterol, one is for lipids… And I think there might be a multivitamin in there as well. So, so basically 19 tablets a day which are antiviral drugs.
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