Antiretroviral drug
Antiretroviral drugs are medications for the treatment of infection by
retroviruses, primarily
HIV. Different classes of antiretroviral drugs act at different stages of the HIV life cycle. Combination of several (typically three or four) antiretroviral drugs is known as Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART).
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Highly active antiretroviral therapy
highly active antiretroviral therapy
Noun
1. a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV
(synonym) drug cocktail, HAART
(hypernym) medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug
(part-meronym) non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, NNRTI
highly active antiretroviral therapy
HAART. Treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection that uses a combination of several antiretroviral drugs. The drugs inhibit the ability of the virus to multiply in the body, and they slow down the development of AIDS.