antiretroviral
adjective
an·ti·re·tro·vi·ral
ˌan-tē-ˈre-trō-ˌvī-rəl 
ˌan-tī-
: acting, used, or effective against retroviruses
antiretroviral drugs
antiretroviral therapy
antiretroviral
noun
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Achmat is best known for co-founding the Treatment Action Campaign in 1998, which successfully advocated to make antiretroviral drugs that carried high prices in wealthy countries affordable in Africa.
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Byscience News Staff, science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
In the 2010s, the global health initiative Unitaid helped create a Medicines Patent Pool, in which pharmaceutical companies from all over the world offered antiretroviral drug licenses, thereby creating a path for developing generic versions so long as the patent holders received royalties.
—Peter J. Hotez, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2021
In the early 2000’s AIDS was no longer a death sentence in the United States and in Europe thanks to widespread access to inexpensive antiretroviral therapy.
—Jennifer Lotito, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Activists’ hard work to organize around access to antiretroviral therapy—even when couched in a broader health and social justice agenda —had inadvertently buttressed claims that HIV was exceptional.
—Adia Benton, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2016
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Byscience News Staff, science.org, 19 Sep. 2024
In the 2010s, the global health initiative Unitaid helped create a Medicines Patent Pool, in which pharmaceutical companies from all over the world offered antiretroviral drug licenses, thereby creating a path for developing generic versions so long as the patent holders received royalties.
—Peter J. Hotez, Foreign Affairs, 10 May 2021
In the early 2000’s AIDS was no longer a death sentence in the United States and in Europe thanks to widespread access to inexpensive antiretroviral therapy.
—Jennifer Lotito, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Activists’ hard work to organize around access to antiretroviral therapy—even when couched in a broader health and social justice agenda —had inadvertently buttressed claims that HIV was exceptional.
—Adia Benton, Foreign Affairs, 10 Mar. 2016
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“Antiretroviral.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antiretroviral. Accessed 4 Dec. 2024.
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antiretroviral
1 of 2 adjective
an·ti·ret·ro·vi·ral
-ˈre-trō-ˌvī-rəl
variants
also
: acting, used, or effective against retroviruses
All four drugs, which inhibit HIV protease and thus interfere with viral maturation and replication, are the most potent antiretroviral agents available to treat patients with HIV disease.—The Journal of the American Medical Association
The Journal of the American Medical Associationantiretroviral therapy
see highly active antiretroviral therapy
antiretroviral
2 of 2 noun
variants
also
: an agent effective against retroviruses
Current anti-HIV drugs, or antiretrovirals, bind to specific HIV enzymes and impede their activity.—Douglas D. Richman, Scientific American
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