More than 40 drugs are now available to treat HIV infection
Antiretroviral drugsare used to treat HIV infection.
The drugs are organized into six different classes based largely on the stage of the life cycle they inhibit.
In the past, antiretroviral therapy was described as a three-drug “cocktail.”
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Without the means to enter a cell, HIV cannot replicate.
They do so by inhibiting a viral enzyme known as integrase.
By doing so, HIV can begin to churn out multiple copies of itself.
These inhibitors can interfere with the HIV capsid at various stages of the viral life cycle.
Some FDC drugs are used with other antiretroviral agents.
Others are entirely used on their own.
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