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Antiretroviral

For Antiretroviral we have terms and definitions in 2 topics. The topics are Female Health and HIV and AIDs.



Antiretroviral (Female Health)

This is the name of the drugs used to treat HIV, which is a retrovirus. There are two main classes of these drugs - reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors.


Antiretroviral (HIV and AIDs)

A substance that stops or suppresses the activity of a retrovirus such as HIV. AZT, ddC, ddI, and d4T are examples of antiretroviral drugs. Antiviral is sometimes used as an alternate term.




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