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FDA Consumer magazine
July-August 1999

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Anti-HIV Drugs

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Reverse transcriptase inhibitors and protease inhibitors, the drugs in the highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimen, provide a "one-two punch," interrupting HIV's replication cycle at different points and reducing the virus in many cases to undetectable levels.


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