A patient has human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease and is taking a "cocktail" consisting of protease inhibitors, nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors, and nonnucleoside analogue reverse-transcriptase inhibitors
Which statement made by the patient indicates that more teaching about the drug therapy is needed? a. "Using three drugs at the same time enhances suppression of viral replication."
b. "There is no problem using these drugs during the last trimester of my pregnan-cy."
c. "Because this drug combination kills HIV, I do not need to worry about transmit-ting the virus."
d. "If the virus becomes resistant to this cocktail, another combination of drugs may be required to reduce my viral load."
C
Protease inhibitors suppress viral replication and release. They do not kill the virus, and currently no therapy for HIV infection kills the virus. The patient needs to understand that even on antire-troviral therapy, the disease can be spread through exchange of body fluids and precautions still must be taken.
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