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Why is drug resistance hiv topic important for patients or nurses to understand?


who will nurses apply drug resistance hiv knowledge to his or her clinical practice (pretendnures are caring for some one with this disease/ disorder)

HIV will often respond when a drug is first initiated. However, as the virus mutates...these strands may not respond to a drug that worked well at first. Patients and caregivers need to understand this so they will be alert to possible new symptoms, and so they will continue with regular follow-up appointments to check their t-cell levels. A drop in t-cells could indicate the virus has become drug resistant and a new drug must be initiated. This is why most HIV patients are on a drug "cocktail"...a combination of several drugs that all work on different strains of the virus.
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