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See also: Abacavir (ABC), Zidovudine (AZT, ZDV, Azidothymidine)

What is Kivexa? Kivexa contains abacavir, lamivudine, and zidovudine. These are antiretroviral drugs used to treat Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. They belong to the group of drugs called nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs).

GlaxoSmithKline's Kivexa site


Reasons Taken

7 patients in the community are taking or have taken Kivexa.

Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Treat my HIV 6 85%
Fatigue 1 14%

Dosages

Based on the patients currently taking Kivexa.

  0 mg day 1 tbs. day 1 day 600 mg day
  1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2  

Duration

How long current patients have been taking Kivexa or how long patients were taking Kivexa before stopping.

Currently taking Kivexa

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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1

Stopped taking Kivexa

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
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0
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0
1
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Why Patients Stopped Taking Kivexa (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Personal research 1 100% Personal research: 100%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 3 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 50% 1
Moderate 50% 1

Treat my HIV

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 0% 0
Mild 33% 1
None 67% 2

Top reported side-effects include:

Summary results are based on 3 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (1 of 3)

  • Narpai
    Mental Symptoms: mild
    Physical Symptoms: mild
    Advanced Symptoms/Infections/Cancers: none
    320
    VL < 50
    See profile
  • by Narpai
    Sep 02, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsNone
  • Fatigue
Advice/Tips
On a day to day basis I found it had no side effects. Recent DAD study suggests that if you have a moderate to high cardiac risk then may not be wisest drug to take. If your risk is 1% and becomes 2 % then thats OK, but for me I had a brother die age 28 of heart attack and then had one myself 8 months after starting. So for me probably wise with new DAD info to swap.

See all evaluation results for Kivexa



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