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Recommended HIV Treatment Regimens
Recommended HIV Treatment
Regimens
What is the treatment for HIV?
Antiretroviral therapy (ART)
is the recommended
treatment for HIV. ART involves
taking a combination of
anti-HIV medications (a
regimen
) every day. Anti-HIV
medications (also called
antiretrovirals
) are grouped into six
drug classes
according to how they ght HIV. e
six classes
are non-nucleoside reverse
transcriptase inhibitors
(NNRTIs), nucleoside reverse
transcriptase inhibitors
(NRTIs), protease inhibitors
(PIs), fusion inhibitors, CCR5
antagonists, and integrase
inhibitors.
Recommended HIV treatment
regimens include three or
more anti-HIV medications from at
least two dierent drug
classes. Taking a combination of
anti-HIV medications from
dierent classes is the most
eective way to control the virus.
Some anti-HIV medications are
available in combination
(two or more medications in one
pill).
Anti-HIV medications are approved
by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA). See
the
FDA-Approved Anti-
HIV Medications
fact sheet for a complete list of
medications used in HIV treatment
regimens in the United
States.
How will I know which anti-HIV
medications
to take?
e best combination of anti-HIV
medications for you
depends on your individual needs.
Factors that you and your
health care provider will
consider when selecting your HIV
regimen include:
•
Other diseases or conditions you
may have
•
Possible side eects of anti-HIV
medications
•
e risk of interactions between
anti-HIV medications and
other medications you take
•
Results of
drug-resistance testing
and other tests
•
Convenience of the regimen. (For
example, a regimen that
involves taking only one pill a
day is convenient to follow.)
•
Any personal issues that can make
following a regimen
di
cult (such as depression or alcohol or drug abuse)
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