What is the drug used to increase the lifespan of AIDS patients?

AZT? Im not sure if it increases the lifespan but it has been approved for the treatment of HIV positive patients.

More better medication and help now for them. Still more better researching to come.

normally doctors know the right kind of drugs to use so go and see a doctor.

Anti Retro Viral

The common treatment for persons infected with Aids, is something known as Combination therapy, or commonly known as a "cocktail" This "cocktail" consists of 3 or more antiretroviral drugs. Because HIV and AIDS replicates itself and makes mistakes when replicating, the infected person may have several different strains of HIV or AIDS. If a new replication is resistant to the antiretroviral drug being used, it has a chance to replicate much quicker. There are 4 groups of antiretroviral drugs, but the most commonly used combination consists of 2 NRTI's (nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors) such as zidovudine and lamivudine, combined with a NNRTI)non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor) such as efavirenz.

NOT ONLY LIFESPAN BUT PREVENTION FIRST AND CURE LATER@@!!

There are medicines that help people with AIDS. These are called antiretroviral medicines (or antiretrovirals.) Anti- means against. HIV is a retrovirus. So antiretroviral means fights retroviruses.

Antiretrovirals cannot cure AIDS. This means they cannot make all of the virus leave a persons body. But they can make people with AIDS more healthy. Antiretrovirals help people fight the HIV virus. This makes their immune systems work better. So antiretrovirals are a treatment but not a cure for HIV.

People with HIV/AIDS who take antiretroviral medicines live longer. They live more years without getting AIDS defining illnesses. But after a long time, the HIV virus learns how to fight the antiretrovirals. The HIV learns to not be killed by the medicines. HIV that learns this is resistant to the medicine. Then the resistant HIV hurts the immune system and the person gets AIDS.

Sometimes when HIV is resistant to one medicine, another medicine can be used. To make less resistance happen, people with AIDS take more than one medicine at the same time. They may take 2-4 medicines at once. This is sometimes called a cocktail or AIDS cocktail. Cocktail is a drink made of more than one kind of alcohol. So a cocktail is sometimes used to mean something made from different types of things.

When HIV gets resistant to one medicine, this is changed to another medicine. So the AIDS cocktail that people with AIDS take changes over time. But after a long time, the HIV learns to be resistant to many drugs. This is called multi-drug-resistant (acronym MDR) HIV. After the HIV in a person becomes MDR-HIV there may be no more medicines to treat them. So scientists keep trying to find new medicines to fight HIV.

The five most important HIV medicines are:

D4T (stavudine)
3TC (Lamivudine)
NVP (nevirapine)
AZT (zidovudine)
EFZ (efavirenz)

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