“Actually most of the people who have HIV infection are not on treatment right now. And treatments are not available in many areas. And the treatments are very costly and complicated. So if you really understand how well individual drugs and drug combinations work, it may be possible to figure out what is the simplest treatment that would be effective and that could be made more widely available,” he said.
The formula could also help prevent drug resistance.
“Resistance is a very big problem when people either don’t get an adequate supply of drugs or don’t take the drugs correctly. Resistance can develop very easily. And the current ways of evaluating what to do for patients who have resistance need to be improved and this mathematical analysis I think gives us a way to do that,” he said.
He said the next focus will be to come up with a drug regimen against which HIV is unable to develop any resistance.
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