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August 5, 2012

List Of Latest HIV Medicines

List of HIV medicine:
  • Nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitors- These drugs can block HIV's ability to copy a cell's DNA. Without complete DNA, HIV can't make new virus copies. These HIV medicines include the following:
1. Zidovudine, also known as AZT (brand name: Retrovir)
2. Didanosine, also known as ddI (brand name: Videx)
3. Zalcitabine, also known as ddC (brand name: Hivid)
4. Lamivudine, also known as 3TC (brand name: Epivir)
5. Stavudine, also known as d4T (brand name: Zerit)
6. Abacavir, also known as ABC (brand name: Ziagen

  • Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor- Also doing same function as above but better way and faster. These HIV medicines include the following.
1. Delavirdine (brand name: Rescriptor)
2. Nevirapine (brand name: Viramune)
3. Efavirenz, also known as EFV

  • Protease inhibitors- Will prevent infected cells from releasing HIV Medicine into the body. Type of medicinesare following-
1. Saquinavir (brand name: Invirase)
2. Indinavir (brand name: Crixivan)
3. Nelfinavir (brand name: Viracept)
4. Ritonavir (brand name: Norvir)
5. Amprenavir (brand name: Agenerase)

Fusion inhibitors- Prevent HIV from entering in to CD4 cells- Examples-
Enfuvirtide (brand name: Fuzeon)

NOTE:Please to be used after Doctor advice.

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