EBK PHARMACOLOGY AND THE NURSING PROCES
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HIV/AIDS is still a challenging virus that no vaccine is available still to cure it. HIV infection is not curable but can be prevented. The medication to HIV infection can avoid spreading of virus for some time but not for a lifetime. The medication is helpful only to prolong a person's life. The medication to HIV inhibits the virus spreading into other cells. They are as follows: nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, fusion inhibitors, protease inhibitors, and entry inhibitor-CCR5.
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