Disease AIDS

At the beginning of the eighties of the last century, when the AIDS epidemic began, it was not an AIDS patient lives more than a few years. But people living with HIV at the present time live longer and better health. The main reason is there are many effective drugs to combat HIV infection.

Most of these drugs can be classified in one of the following three categories:

• reverse transcriptase inhibitors. An important step in the virus life cycle of these drugs and hinder and prevent it from multiplying.

• enzyme protease inhibitors. These drugs hinder the protein used by the virus in the production of virus particles that transmit the infection.

• fusion inhibitors. These drugs restrict the virus and prevent it from entering the body's cells.

It is true that these drugs help people with, but it is not perfect, it does not cure the disease, HIV, or AIDS. But the virus remains in the bodies of people with eating despite medication. As well as the possibility of transmission of the virus from infected him to others through sexual relations and participation unsafe injection remains.