What are the drug combinations for HIV?

FDA-Approved HIV Medicines

Drug Class	Generic Name (Other names and acronyms)	Brand Name
Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (NRTIs)
Combination HIV medicines contain two or more HIV medicines from one or more drug classes.	efavirenz, lamivudine, and tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (EFV / 3TC / TDF)	Symfi

Why do HIV patients take multiple medications?

This is because attacking HIV from multiple directions reduces the viral load more quickly, which has been shown to control HIV the best. Taking more than one antiretroviral drug also helps prevent resistance to the drugs being used. This means a person’s medications may work better to treat HIV.

Is Tribuss an ARV?

Tribuss is a pill that contains three HIV drugs (ARVs) – efavirenz, FTC and tenofovir DF. It is one of the generic versions of the brand-name drug Atripla.

What is the difference between cART and HAART?

1 While combination HIV therapies have historically been referred to as HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy), the terminology has evolved to where many people simply described it as cART or ART (antiretroviral therapy).

What is the best HIV medication?

The FDA approved Apretude (cabotegravir extended-release injectable suspension) for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV in December. Administered as an injection every other month, Apretude gives people at risk of contracting HIV a PrEP alternative to taking daily pills. Despite decades of research, there is still no vaccine against HIV.

What are the different types of HIV medications?

Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) turn off a protein needed by HIV to make copies of itself. Examples include efavirenz (Sustiva),rilpivirine (Edurant) and doravirine (Pifeltro).

Nucleoside or nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) are faulty versions of the building blocks that HIV needs to make copies of itself.

Protease inhibitors (PIs) inactivate HIV protease,another protein that HIV needs to make copies of itself. Examples include atazanavir (Reyataz),darunavir (Prezista) and lopinavir/ritonavir (Kaletra).

What medications are used to treat HIV?

The amount of HIV in the blood is called viral load.

Taking your HIV medicine as prescribed will help keep your viral load low and your CD4 cell count high.

HIV medicine can make the viral load very low (called viral suppression ).

HIV medicine can make the viral load so low that a test can’t detect it (called an undetectable viral load ).

What is the newest HIV medication?

Entacapone

Tolcapone

Entacapone-levodopa

Opicapone