Mexico has one of the lowest rates of HIV infection

• April 23, 2024

In Mexico there are 48 thousand people with AIDS and 34 thousand 976 with the virus HIV Without having developed the disease, it occurs in the population between 15 to 49 years of age. Currently the country has one of the lowest infection rates in the world!

The secretary of health, Dr. José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, commented that in the last 4 years the number of treatments has tripled to people who receive antiretroviral (ARVs) for HIV / AIDS; decreasing the mortality 3.2% in 3 years.

At the meeting held last June at the headquarters of the Organization of the United Nations (UN) , the Political Declaration on HIV AIDS , in which the countries committed to intensify the effort to eliminate it and renew the global response, with a focus on human rights, establishing the need to strengthen and increase prevention actions.

He stated that in Mexico actions aimed at preventing new infections through the prevention focused , offer better services and strengthen the work to fight the stigma, discrimination that surround the disease.

Why are antiretrovirals effective against HIV / AIDS?

Are the main treatment for the disease; although it is not a cure, but it allows people to delay the development of the disease for many years.

The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) belongs to the family of retroviruses. This term refers to the fact that these viruses have to retrotranscribe their genetic material from RNA to DNA as an indispensable step to complete your Lifecycle . For this reason, acting drugs are called antiretroviral

The treatment consists of different medications that fight HIV infection through enzyme inhibition viral or the blocking receptors viral or cellular. Depending on the point of the cycle in which they act and according to their mechanism of action, they are classified as:

1. Inhibitors of fusion and of entry
2. Nucleotide inhibitors of treverse transcriptase
3. Non-nucleotide inhibitors of Reverse transcriptase
4. Inhibitors of integrasa
5. Inhibitors of protease

Side effects

The ARV therapy it brings with it a series of side effects that the patient gets to suffer either at the beginning of treatment or as this lasts; usually they are usually mild, although there are some that can last from days to weeks.

1. Headaches
2. General feeling of discomfort
3. Arterial hypertension
4. Fatigue
5. Anemia
6. problems digestive affect the stomach and cause nausea, vomiting, gas or diarrhea
7. Lipodystrophy . changes in the shape of the body, by loss of fat in the arms, legs and face and accumulation of this in the stomach, behind the neck
8. High levels of fats and blood sugar
9. High levels of even cholesterol, triglycerides
10. Problems with skin rashes, dry skin and hair loss
11. Neuropathy painful caused by nerve damage
12. Mitochondrial toxicity, can cause Kidney damage and cause accumulation of lactic acid
13. Osteoporosis

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