Anti-retroviral drugs used in
treatment try to approach of the
several steps the HIV life cycle.
are three main groups drugs: the
reverse transcriptase , that
attempt to disallow formation of
DNA from viral RNA (zidovudine, or
, ddI, d4T, 3TC, nevirapine,
, etc.); the protease inhibitors,
block the enzyme protease
for the assemblage of
virus (saquinavir, ritonavir, nelfinavir,
); and the group of
inhibitors (includes fusion inhibitors),
try to block the of HIV into
the (enfuvirtide, a fusion
inhibitor).