How to Use antiretroviral in a Sentence

antiretroviral

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• So many of my friends and colleagues missed the antiretroviral drugs that would have saved their lives.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 13 July 2021
• Many of the 40 had gone through treatments with at least 10 antiretroviral drugs.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 6 Mar. 2018
• The argument over Covid vaccines harkens back to the debate over access to antiretroviral drugs for H.I.V. in the 1990s.
  — New York Times, 15 May 2021
• This is where antiretroviral drugs can step in, blocking certain parts of this process.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
• For those who contract HIV, antiretroviral medicines offer the chance of a near-normal life.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2018
• Taking the antiretroviral drugs that control H.I.V. for years can lead to a higher risk of heart disease.
  — Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• While deaths have been capped thanks to the world’s biggest antiretroviral treatment program, Covid-19 has added a new wrinkle to their plight.
  — Antony Sguazzin, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
• Lenacapavir is an antiretroviral drug, which works by stopping the virus from replicating to keep HIV levels in the body very low.
  — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
• That risk was found even in people whose virus was undetectable in their blood because of antiretroviral drugs.
  — Jill Daly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
• The drugs are approved to treat adults with the most common strain of the virus and target patients who have received no prior antiretroviral treatment.
  — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018
• That 20 cents will cover the cost of one day’s worth of antiretroviral medication for someone in the region.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• Some of them took the form of tangible objects: X-ray machines, antiretroviral drugs.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2021
• Later this month, the volunteer will stop taking the antiretroviral drugs he’s been on to keep the virus at undetectable levels.
  — WIRED, 5 Oct. 2022
• And while the cost of antiretroviral treatments have plummeted in the last two decades to less than $100 per person per year, condoms can be produced for less than a penny each.
  — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2017
• Roughly one in four people living with HIV do not have access to antiretroviral drugs and 15% don’t even know their status.
  — Jennifer Lotito, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The tides began to turn in 1987 when the first treatment, azidothymidine (AZT) garnered approval as the first of dozens of antiretroviral treatments now available.
  — Dr. Divya Chhabra and Sony Salzman, ABC News, 5 June 2021
• The man stopped taking antiretroviral medication for his HIV in 2018 and remains in remission, or a state of having no virus present in the body.
  — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 18 July 2024
• In the last 20 years, medicine has developed a regimen of drugs to treat HIV known as antiretroviral therapy.
  — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
• The advent of antiretroviral drugs in the 1990s marked the beginning of a hopeful shift, and a decade later, after an era of despair, gay life reclaimed its vibrancy in the city.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• One patient has now been off antiretroviral drug treatment for 15 weeks and the other for seven weeks, and no signs of the virus have been detected in either patient so far.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2013
• This year is the last before the target date for the success of the latest of the agencies’ campaigns to roll out the antiretroviral drugs that both keep those already infected with HIV alive and stop them passing the virus on.
  — The Economist, 28 Nov. 2019
• Over that time, a man can spread the virus to dozens of partners; but a man who has been tested and takes his antiretroviral pills every day is at virtually zero risk of passing on the virus.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
• Today, antiretroviral medicines can control HIV and help people live long lives.
  — Judith Feinberg, STAT, 1 Dec. 2019
• One wonders whether this movie is a product of a world where antiretroviral drugs and other treatments have made HIV a livable condition so many.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 20 Oct. 2017
• Now 26, Moore takes just one pill a day — an antiretroviral treatment that makes the virus undetectable and untransmittable to others.
  — NBC News, 10 June 2021
• The go-to treatment for the infection is antiretroviral therapy, better known as ART.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2019
• About six months into the research, two of the medications in her antiretroviral HIV cocktail were replaced.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
• Powerful antiretroviral drugs can control H.I.V., but a cure is key to ending the decades-old pandemic.
  — New York Times, 15 Feb. 2022
• That's in part due to the increasing access to antiretroviral therapies, as well as drugs that can prevent new infections.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 7 July 2020
• Standard antiretroviral treatment for HIV works only on immune cells that, typical of infected cells, are actively making new viral copies.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024