Treatment
There is no cure for AIDS, but
medications are effective against
HIV and its complications.
Treatments are made to reduce
HIV in the body and to keep the
immune system healthy.
Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase
Inhibitors (NRTI)
These drugs interrupt the virus
from duplicating, so that it leads
to slow the spread of HIV in the
body.
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Abacavir
Didanosine
Emtricitabine
Lamivudine
Stavudine
Tenofovir
Zalcitabine
Zidovudine
Combinations of Nucleoside
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
help to increase effectiveness.
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Combivir (Zidovudine + Lamivudine)
Trizivir (Zidovudine + Lamivudine +
Abacavir),
Epzicom (Abacavir + Lamivudine)
Truvada (Tenofovir + Lamivudine)
Non-Nucleoside Reverse
Transcriptase Inhibitors (NNRTI)
Non-nucleoside reverse
transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs)
block the infection of new cells by
HIV.
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Protease Inhibitors (PI)
These drugs interrupt virus
replication at a later step in the
virus life cycle.
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? Atazanavir
? Fosamprenavir
Highly Active Antiretroviral
Therapy (HAART)
HAART — often explained as the
anti-HIV "cocktail" — is a
combination of drugs, such as
protease inhibitors and other
anti-retroviral medications. The
treatment is very effective to
reduce the amount of virus in the
body by interrupting replication