-Students must not plagiarize text from the papers provided (avoiding excessive quotations), nor should you cut and paste text from websites or other sources. HIV drug resistance: problems and perspectives and perspectives Pleuni s. Pennings Department of Biology, Stanford University, CA, UsA health. [thtectious Disease Reports 2013: 5sles] [page 24] feriew European patients with transmitted drug limited settings, Stadeli and Richman found half- lives. Efoetive monotheeagy is mest likely resistance whe were treated with a fally artive that 7\% of patients who have been on ART for to occur in patients on NNETI-hased treatcombination of drugs, 95s had fully s.p. 6.11 months had resistasoe, 114 after 12.23 metts, because NNRTIs typically hane longer pressed viral Wad afler one year. of the months and 21N after 36 months of more.' A half tives than NKTls." Howerer, the impor patients who were trealod with an insulficient- similar effect has been reported for patients in tance of effective monotherapy for mesistance Vy strong regimen, k.W had fully suppressed high incoeme couatries. For example, a large is debaled. "ln low income countries, there is viral lnad after one year. stady from the IK meports that the percentage concern alout resistance doe to unplanned In low-income couatries, patients with of putients with at least one drug-resistance treaament interruptions when patients are transmitted drug resistance may start insaff- mutation increases from 11 to 14 to 15s after faced with stock-osts at the bospital or pharciently strong ART regimens, because viral fout, six and eight years respectively for macy. For example, Mareellio ed " "show that genotpping is usualy not available and trans. patients on NNRTL-bsed treatment.' This treatment interruptions occur in Camserwon mitted resistance not delected. Insulficienlly stady shows that even a patient whose viral doe to drug shortages in hospitals. strong treatments will be less effective i i population did not exhe resistance during six reducing the viral bod, which, in turn, can lead years of treatiment has a peokability of around to the evolution of multi class drug resistance. ZN to acquire resistance during the next year In addition, even if testing is done, fener sec- of treatsent. ond lise trealment options are wailable for In general, treatments based on NNRTls or patients in low-income countries. unboosted Pls are more susceptible to resist. Multi-chass drug resistanoe typically occurs ance than treatment based on a ritonaic- when a virus that is resistant to ose drod boosted PI (bPI)." bPI regimens are less sus acquires resistance to another drug. In prindAcquired drug resistance ceplible to resistance, parth because resist- ple, it is possible that a vinis acquires muliple ance to the bll itself is unlikely to evolve, bet dres-resishoce mutations at the samse time. during antiretroviral treatment also because, in the prosence of the hPl, it is but data sagsest that this is uncommon. F.