What is the best medication for HIV?
What is the best medication for HIV?
The most effective treatment for HIV is antiretroviral therapy (ART). This is a combination of several medicines that aims to control the amount of virus in your body. Antiretroviral medicines slow the rate at which the virus grows.
What type of drugs are used to treat HIV?
The classes of anti-HIV drugs are:
- Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs or ‘nukes’).
- Nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NtRTIs).
- Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs or ‘non-nukes’).
- Protease inhibitors (PIs).
- Fusion and entry inhibitors.
- Integrase inhibitors.
What is the first line treatment for HIV?
Update on recommendations on antiretroviral regimens for treating and preventing HIV infection: In 2016, WHO published the consolidated guidelines on the use of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for treating and preventing HIV infection and recommended tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) + lamivudine (3TC) (or emtricitabine.
What are the most common HIV medications?
The most common antiviral agents prescribed for AIDS and HIV are Epivir, Kaletra®, Retrovir®, Norvir®, and Ziagen. Some medications that have been approved for the treatment of children with HIV or AIDS are Agenerase, Sustiva ®, Crixavan, and Viracept.
What are the best pills for HIV?
The best-selling HIV drugs last year were Genvoya, Triumeq, Truvada, Tivicay, and Atripla. Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ:GILD) claimed three of these drugs, including No. 1 Genvoya. The other two top HIV drugs — Triumeq and Tivicay — belonged to GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK).
How many medications do you have to take for HIV?
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.
