The primary goal of anti-HIV medication is to slow down disease progression; this helps delay the onset of opportunistic infections and an AIDS diagnosis.Treatment does this by slowing the HIV replication process and therefore limiting potential damage to the immune system.
Anti-HIV medication is made up of five different classes of drugs.The different classes are designed to interrupt this lifecycle by controlling the virus at specific stages.
By taking a combination of anti-HIV drugs from several different classes, it is possible to attack HIV at different stages of its lifecycle.Using a combination of medication from more than one drug class has been proven as the best way to suppress the amount of HIV in your body and control any damage to the immune system.
