HIV Symposium Flashcards
Where did HIV come from?
HIV 1 from Chimpanzees and HIV2 from sooty managebeys
When did the start calling it AIDS?
1982
HIV was discovered in?
1983- Pasteur
Gallo- 1984
Which drug was primarily given to HIV patients?
Zidovudine
Prophylaxis in 1989 was?
Nebulised pentamidine
AZT could reduce transmission by?
25 to 8%
Lazarus syndrome?
Blood circulation return spontaneously after your heart stops beating and fails to restart despite CPR.
What is highly active anti-retro viral therapy, HAART?
Combination therapy- usually at least 3 anti retro viral drugs
Side effects of HAART?
Wasting of face
Lipodystrophy (gain fat some places and lose in other)
Gain of weight
HIV life cycle?
Attaches to CD4, require cofactors CCR5
Fuses with membrane and releases 3 enzymes
Uses reverse transcriptase to turn rna strand to dna
DNA integrated to host nucleus , integrase
Produces proteins
Protease to snip proteins and buds off
Anti- retro viral classes?
Fusion inhibitors
Coreceptor inhibitors
Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
Non nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors
Integrate inhibitors
Protease inhibitors
How many viruses produced per person per day?
10 billion
Mutations in HIV happen every?
10,000 bases
Normal values of CD4?
> 500
If diagnosed for CD4 was less than 350 then increased risk of death is by?
10 fold
Combination prevention?
Treatment as prevention TasP
Pre-exposure prophylaxis- PrEP
Expansion of HIV testing
U=U?
Undetectable is untransmittable
PrEP?
Truvada (tenofovir)
When was PrEP allowed to be given?
Oct 2020
How many people living with HIV globally?
37.7 million
How much reduction in infections since 1997?
52%
What happens initially in HIV?
Mucosal infection keeps developing, HIV specific CD8 T cells rise sharply and reduce viral load, gradual loss of CD4 t lymphocytes