Antiretroviral drugs prevent the reproduction of a type of virus called a retrovirus. The human immunodefiency virus (HIV), that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), is a retrovirus. These drugs are therefore used to treat HIV infections....

Antiretroviral drugs are medications for the treatment of infection by retroviruses, primarily HIV. Different classes of antiretroviral drugs act at different stages of the HIV life cycle. Combination of several (typically three or four) antiretroviral...

When considering treatment of HIV infection during pregnancy the risk-benefit equation for the fetus clearly favors treatment. Even if there are remote, undefined side effects of therapy due to prenatal exposure, the risk of vertical transmission is markedly reduced when the woman takes...

With the current global pandemic and emerging epidemics in territorially large, highly populated countries like India, China and Russia, human immune deficiency virus (HIV) infection poses a major challenge to the scientific community for successful intervention. The two key factors that are essential for...

Russia's chief epidemiologist said Tuesday that the country was suffering a shortage in HIV medicines and acknowledged that bureaucratic bungles had contributed to the problem. Gennady Onishchenko's comments reinforced complaints that AIDS activists made last month of interrupted deliveries of...

Cameroon will give free treatment to all HIV/AIDS patients in the West African country starting next month, the health minister pledged Thursday."The government of the Republic of Cameroon has decided today that there will be free treatment with antiretroviral (drugs) for all people living with...