aidsmap.com :: HIV basics - HIV & AIDS: "Other drugs were developed, but it became clear that treatment with one drug alone did not work well in the long term.
Treatment with two anti-HIV drugs was shown to have more benefit, but the real breakthrough came with development of new anti-HIV drugs that worked against the virus in a number of different ways.
In 1996, triple-drug HIV treatment was introduced. This treatment was able to reduce the amount of virus in the blood and allow the immune system to strengthen. Thanks to this treatment, the number of AIDS deaths fell dramatically in countries where treatment was widely available.
However, HIV was spreading rapidly in some of the world’s poorest countries, especially in southern Africa, and wider access to HIV treatment in these countries is only now starting to become a reality.
The early HIV treatment combinations were difficult to take and many caused unpleasant and long-term side-effects."
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