There are different types of HIV inhibitors.
HIV inhibitors combat the virus so that no new copies of HIV can be made, therefore halting the replication process. They do this in four main ways. If you would like to know more, you can watch the videos, which explain how these different HIV inhibitors work.
HIV inhibitors can be divided into four groups based on their function:
- Drugs that prevent HIV from fusing with a CD4 cell, entry inhibitors
- Drugs that inhibit the activity of reverse transcriptase
- Drugs that inhibit the activity of integrase
- Drugs that inhibit the activity of protease
The viral enzymes reverse transcriptase, integrase and protease are indispensable for the replication of the virus. They trigger certain steps and ensure that one step follows the other, eventually creating new virus particles.