Objective: To describe the actual use and evaluate the results of antiviral treatment in the patients with HIV/AIDS. Subjects: Outpatients with HIV/AIDS are being managed and treated with antiretroviral drugs in Thai Nguyen A Hospital. Methods: Descriptive study. Results: The male patients accounted for 60.3 percent , aged from 30 to 39 (62.8 percent ). 53.8 percent of the patients do not have a job. Before the treatment, the patients were mainly in clinical phases II and III (39.7 percent and 24.4 percent )
70.5 percent of results::
200 cells/mm3. ARVs which were used is 1c regimen (53.8 percent ). The rate of patients with stage III decreased from 24.4 percent to 1.3 percent
Phase IV decreased from 11.5 percent to 2.6 percent (p 0.05). CD4 cell increased after the treatment from 140 to 227 cells/mm3. The incidence of candidiasis decreased from 21.8 percent to 2.5 percent , diarrhea decreased from 41.0 percent to 0 percent . The average weight of patients increased from 49.2 kg to 50.9 kg
the number of patients able to return to the normal job increased from 7.7 percent to 14.1 percent . Common side effects were headache, fatigue (14.1 percent ), anemia (11.5 percent ) and increased liver enzymes (10.3 percent ).