What are the types of ARV?
What are the 6 classes of antiretroviral drugs (ARDs) for pediatric HIV infection?
- Nucleoside or nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs)
- Nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs)
- Protease inhibitors (PIs)
- Integrase inhibitors (IIs)
- Fusion inhibitors (FIs)
- Chemokine receptor antagonists (CRAs)
What is an epi profile?
The epidemiologic profile is a document that describes the burden of HIV on the population of an area in terms of sociodemographic, geographic, behavioral, and clinical characteristics of persons with HIV.
What is Nrtti?
NUCLEOSIDE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE TRANSLOCATION INHIBITOR (NRTTI) MK-8591 (EFdA) is an adenosine analogue that both acts as a reverse transcriptase chain terminator and prevents DNA translocation. 3. It has a prolonged half-life of 150 to 160 hours.
How long does an ARV last?
A 2017 study in the journal AIDS found that the additional life expectancy for people with HIV at age 20 during the early monotherapy era was 11.8 years. However, that number rose to 54.9 years for the most recent combination antiretroviral era.
What is Nnrti?
Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) bind to and block HIV reverse transcriptase (an HIV enzyme). HIV uses reverse transcriptase to convert its RNA into DNA (reverse transcription). Blocking reverse transcriptase and reverse transcription prevents HIV from replicating.
What are drugs Class 12?
Drugs are chemicals of low molecular masses that interact with macromolecular targets and produce a biological response. When the biological response is therapeutic, which are desired and beneficial, called as medicines. The use of chemicals for obtaining a therapeutic effect is called chemotherapy.
What is the difference between NRTI and Nnrti?
So NRTIs are like another zip giving the zipper another track to follow. NNRTIs work by sitting in a binding site in the virus structure and this is a bit like having an object that blocks the teeth of the zipper, so the zipper cannot get past the block.