Treatment of patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome and associated manifestations

Treatment of AIDS is multidisciplinary and often involves input from a number of medical subspecialties. Treatment of opportunistic infections and malignancies in AIDS is largely palliative in that these treatments do not reverse the underlying immunodeficiency. Investigational approaches to the treatment of this syndrome with immunomodulators and antiviral agents are currently being investigated with the hope that these agents, either alone or in combination, will be active against this devastating disease.