[Antiretroviral therapy of HIV infection: duration and reasons for changing the first therapeutic regimen in 518 patients].

Background And Objective: Different combinations of antiretroviral drugs are used as initial HIV therapy but comparative studies between them are not frequent. The objectives of this study are to determine the median duration of different therapy combinations in naive patients between 1998-2000 and the main reasons for changing or stopping this first antiretroviral therapy (ARVT).

Patients And Method: This study included a total of 518 naive patients who began antiretroviral therapy patients from 1998-2000.