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01/19/2015
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REPORTER: Patients with HIV and AIDS now have a new treatment option. 3 is the product 1, which combines in a single tablet three drugs. It is expected that the new tablet start to reach all Brazilian states and the Federal District in the coming days. According to estimates by the Ministry of Health, the novelty should benefit 100 000 new patients with HIV and AIDS. The states of Rio Grande do Sul and Amazon already receive the 3 in 1 since November. About 11 thousand people are benefiting in both states. The doctor Larry Castillo Nina sees patients with HIV and AIDS in a health center of Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. He says that adherence to treatment increased with the medicine 3 in 1.
SOUND: Medical - Larry Castillo Nina
"My experience with the treatment of patients with HIV with the product 3 in 1, this has greater advantage because it is one tablet that the patient will take a time in the day. In the past, patients had to take three or four drugs and they had many side effects referenced by patients, such as nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, which generates a very common treatment dropout. Now with the 3 in 1 they only relate much sleep the first two weeks. Then fades, fading effects side ".
REPORTER: The Secretary of Health Surveillance, Ministry of Health, Jarbas Barbosa explains that reducing the number of patients who discontinue treatment is one of the main benefits of the product 3 in 1. It reminds the patient with HIV and AIDS who do not leaves the treatment has been life quality.
"The drug, when it is prescribed appropriately by the doctor, he has to be taken on a continuous basis because any interruption can either take the virus to multiply again, leads the virus to multiply and can cause problem and may even encourage resistance. the person no longer react to those medicines and having to take other medicines later. "
REPORTER: The support network for patients with HIV and AIDS has almost two thousand centers Testing and Counseling, Specialized Care Services and Drug Distribution Units. In addition, the Basic Health Units are also beginning to see patients with AIDS and HIV. Just over 730,000 people live with HIV and AIDS in the country.
Report, Fabio Ruas
Source: Health Portal
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