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Drug Uses
Zerit is used to treat HIV infection.
How Taken
Adults and teens weighting 132 pounds or more should take 40mg twice per day. Doses of 20mg two times per day are sometimes used in patients with advanced HIV disease or mild peripheral neuropathy. Zerit is usually given in combination with other antiretroviral medications. Read the rest of this entry »

Drug Uses
Retrovir is sued to treat HIV infection in combination with other medications and to
prevent passage of the virus from pregnant women to the fetus.
How Taken
Adults should take 0.9mg per pound of body weight injected slowly into a vein every four hours, up to six times per day. Read the rest of this entry »

Drug Uses
Viramune is used to treat HIV infections in combination with other drugs.
How Taken
To start, 200mg once a day should be taken for 14 days then 200mg twice per day. Viramune should be given in combination with other drugs for HIV to delay the development of resistant strains of the virus. Read the rest of this entry »

The human immunodeficiency virus, which destroys a subgroup of white blood cells (the helper T-cells,
or CD4 lymphocytes), resulting in suppression of the body’s immune response. HIV infection is essentially
sexually transmitted; the two other main routes of spread are via infected blood or blood products and from
an infected woman to her fetus (it may also be acquired from maternal blood during childbirth or be transmitted in breast milk). Acute infection following exposure to the virus results in the production of antibodies, their presence indicating that infection has taken place. Some people who are HIV-positive progress to chronic infection. Read the rest of this entry »