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Antiretroviral therapy, which interrupts the virus’ copy-and-paste routine, is the stalwart of HIV treatment. “We have medications that stop it at certain points from replicating, but if you ...
U.S. regulators have approved the first long-acting drug combo for HIV, monthly shots that can replace the daily pills now used to control infection with the AIDS virus. Thursday’s approval of ...
Antiretroviral drugs are used to manage HIV/AIDS. Multiple antiretroviral drugs are often combined into a single pill in order to reduce pill burden . Some of these combinations are complete single-tablet regimens; the others must be combined with additional pills to make a treatment regimen.
Lenacapavir was approved for medical treatment in the European Union in August 2022, [10] [12] in Canada in November 2022, [5] [6] and in the United States in December 2022. [9] [11] [13] [14] It is the first of a class of drugs called capsid inhibitors to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating HIV/AIDS. [11] [15]
Schematic description of the mechanism of the four classes of available antiretroviral drugs against HIV. There are six classes of drugs, which are usually used in combination, to treat HIV infection. Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are broadly classified by the phase of the retrovirus life-cycle that the drug inhibits. Typical combinations include ...
Rilpivirine, sold under the brand names Edurant and Rekambys, is a medication, developed by Tibotec, used for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. [5] [6] It is a second-generation non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) with higher potency, longer half-life and reduced side-effect profile compared with older NNRTIs such as efavirenz.
HIV climbs nationally among people who inject drugs, data show People who inject drugs made up 8% of the 32,100 estimated new HIV cases nationally in 2021, the latest year the data is available.
The diminished rate of new HIV infections brought about by these strategies are marked progress towards UNAIDS' 90-90-90 and 95-95-95 target to eliminate HIV/AIDS as a public health crisis by 2030. [8] However, key populations in countries in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East may still have lower access to treatment. [9]