K.D. is responding well to treatment for PJP and plans are being made for discharge. His ART regimen
is restarted and he will soon begin radiation treatments for the KS. He will receive follow-up care at the
outpatient clinic.
What will be an ideal response?
K.D. is kept on trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (Bactrim) two tablets once daily. He asks
why he has to keep taking the drug "since the pneumonia is gone." How would you respond?
Because K.D. is now at risk for opportunistic infections, Bactrim is being used prophylactically
against his redeveloping further PJP and other bacterial infections.
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