MEDICATIONS USED TO TREAT HIV
Written by:
Rebecca A.P. Feld, RPh
In the last few years, the number of medications available to treat HIV has increased dramatically. Much of the available literature is highly technical and difficult to understand. While working with HIV patients, I noticed that there is very little patient-oriented material available. These pages are designed to make these medications more understandable to people without a medical background, although doctors and other medical professionals will also find them useful. The medications listed below are used to treat the virus itself, not any of the associated opportunistic infections (infections that you may catch because your immune system is not working properly). If there is sufficient interest, I will post similar pages on some of the medications used in the treatment and prevention of opportunistic infections.
The medications currently available to treat HIV are:
| Generic Name | Also Called | Brand Name | Classification |
| Zidovudine | AZT | Retrovir | Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |
| Didanosine | ddI | Videx | Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |
| Zalcitabine | ddC | Hivid | Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |
| Stavudine | d4T | Zerit | Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |
| Lamivudine | 3TC | Epivir | Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor |
| Zidovudine/Lamivudine | 3TC | Combivir | Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor Combination |
| Nevirapine | Viramune | Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor | |
| Saquinavir | Invirase | Protease Inhibitor | |
| Ritonavir | Norvir | Protease Inhibitor | |
| Indinavir | Crixivan | Protease Inhibitor | |
| Nelfinavir | Viracept | Protease Inhibitor |
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