antiretroviral

Examples

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• Doctors prescribe antiretroviral medication to help manage HIV and improve patients' health.

• Taking antiretroviral drugs regularly can significantly reduce the risk of HIV transmission.

• The same is true with antiretroviral therapy for patients with HIV.

• At the beginning of 2007, according to the World Health Organization, more than five million HIV-positive people in developing countries needed antiretroviral treatment but were not receiving it.

  Academic text (2010)

• It's also true that antiretroviral treatment lowers the viral load and therefore reduces transmission.

• Thailand implemented a national AIDS program in 1991 and a national antiretroviral (ARV) treatment program in 2000.

  Academic text (2012)

• Among all participants, 3,359 (92%) reported ever taking antiretroviral medications for HIV infection, and 3,091 (85%) reported currently taking antiretrovirals.

  Blog text (15)

• Detecting HIV in pregnant women allows health care professionals to recommend regimens of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), thus leading to significantly reduced rates of mother-to-child transmission (Chou & Huffman, 2007).

  Academic text (2009)

• Many patients experience fewer symptoms when they consistently follow their antiretroviral treatment regimen.

Synonyms

A

antiviral

vsantiretroviral

• Specialized

12 4.1

Able to stop viruses from growing or spreading

is limited to drugs targeting retroviruses such as HIV rather than all viruses

Compounds

H

highly active antiretroviral therapy

• Specialized

4.9

A treatment for HIV that uses several medicines to lower the amount of virus in the body

How Effective

potent

119 5.5

antiretroviral

• Specialized

3 4.6

active

• Specialized

44 3.2

limited

393 2.5

ineffective

90 3.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology