Glossary

HAART – a common term for HIV combination therapy, an acronym for Highly Active AntiRetroviral Treatment.

TD (or tid) – a short hand term for medication dosing that means ‘take three times a day’.

See also q8H.

malignant – dangerous. A malignant cancer is a dangerous cancer that is growing.

stage (staging) – the stage of hepatitis infection refers to the amount of scaring (fibrosis), from results from a biposy. It is usually measured on the Metavir scale of 0 to 4, where 0 represents no scarring and 4 cirrhosis, or on the Knodell scale of 0 to 6, where 0 is no scarring and 6 cirrhosis. See grading.

salvage therapy – a term for the combination therapy used after someone has developed resistance to three or more classes of HIV drugs. Also called ‘third-line’ or ‘rescue therapy’ or ‘treatment of patients with multidrug resistance’.