Alexa TrihanCheryl Ogen is a 39-year-old patient who is employed as a kindergarten teacher. She has been married for 15 years, and has never had any children. Her medical history confirms that both...

Alexa TrihanCheryl Ogen is a 39-year-old patient who is employed as a kindergarten teacher. She has been married for 15 years, and has never had any children. Her medical history confirms that both her mother and maternal grandmother died from breast cancer. Now Cheryl has been diagnosed w is referred to an HIV clinic after she is diagnosed as having the HIV infection at the free clinic she goes to for medical care, most likely acquired by IV drug use. She is prescribed antiretroviral therapy using a HAART regimen. Although the health care provider has explained the therapy, Alexa’s anxiety results in her inability to comprehend the entire explanation provided. Alexa begins asking you, her nurse, questions about HAART.

1. Using simple language, how would you, as Alexa’s nurse, explain HIV and HAART therapy?

2. Alexa tells you that she may be pregnant. How will this potentially affect her treatment?