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Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

ISSN: 2155-6113

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Hiv Antiretroviral Drugs

HIV medications can help lower your viral load, fight infections, and improve your quality of life. They can lower your chances of transmitting HIV, but if you take them incorrectly, you can still give HIV to others. They're not a cure for HIV.

The goals for these medicines are to Control the growth of the virus and to Improve how well your immune system works and Slow or stop symptoms which Prevent transmission of HIV to others.

The FDA has approved more than two dozen antiretroviral drugs to treat HIV infection. They're often broken into six groups because they work in different ways. Doctors recommend taking a combination or "cocktail" of at least two of them. This is called antiretroviral therapy, or ART.

Your doctor will let you know specifically how you should take your medications. You need to follow the directions exactly, and you shouldn't miss even one dose. If you miss doses, you could develop drug-resistant strains of HIV, and your medication may stop working.

Some other medicines and supplements don't mix well with HIV drugs, so make sure you tell your doctor about everything you're taking.

Some of the drugs to control the HIV are Abacavir, or ABC (Ziagen), Didanosine, or ddl (Videx), Emtricitabine, or FTC (Emtriva), Lamivudine, or 3TC (Epivir), Stavudine, or d4T (Zerit), Tenofovir alafenamide, or TAF (Vemlidy), Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, or TDF (Viread), Zidovudine or ZDV (Retrovir)

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