State-of-the-Art: HIV Therapy for the Treatment Experienced

What does it mean when your HIV develops resistance to many HIV medications? If you have drug resistance, what are your options? In the bad old days, if your HIV developed drug resistance, it was often a challenge for physicians to cobble together a powerful second regimen. As more and more people with HIV developed drug resistance, "salvage" therapy -- or, as we prefer calling it, "rescue" therapy -- became one of the hottest topics in HIV treatment. But the times are changing. If you are someone whose HIV has developed resistance to lots of HIV drugs, there are now more HIV medications than ever before that can help you -- and there are even more drugs in development. The key is making sure that you and your HIV doctor have the knowledge you need to come up with a treatment regimen that works for you. That's why, for our April edition of "This Month in HIV," we've interviewed two experts who can break down this issue for people who aren't experts: physician and researcher Eric Daar, M.D., and Jeff Berry, an 18-year HIV survivor and editor of Test Positive Aware Network's Positively Aware.