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AIDS Medicines
In the untimely 1980s, when the AIDS
epidemic began, AIDS patients hardly ever lived
longer than a few years. But these days, people
infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, have
longer and healthier lives. The major reason is that
there are a lot of effective medicines to fight the
infection.
The majority medicines fall into one
of the following three categories
- Reverse transcriptase (RT) inhibitors.
These medicines interfere with a serious step during
the HIV life cycle and keep the virus from replicating.
- Protease inhibitors. These medicines meddle with
a protein that HIV uses to produce infectious viral
substances.
- Fusion inhibitors. These medicines block the virus
from inflowing the body's cells.
While these medicines aid people with
HIV, they are not perfect. They do not heal HIV infection
or AIDS. populace with HIV infection still have the
virus in their bodies, so even when they are taking
medicines they can transmit HIV to others during unprotected
sex and needle sharing.
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