Glossary

lesion – damage to a part of the body.

viral load – the amount of virus in a sample of blood or other fluid. With HIV this is commonly the amount of HIV in a millilitre (mL) of blood. See viral load test.

mL (millilitre) – a measure of a volume of liquid. 1000 millititres = 1 litre.

BD (or bid) – a short hand term for medication dosing that means ‘twice-daily’.

See also q12H.

NNRTI – Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor, a type of HIV drug – also called ‘non-nuke’.

Efavirenz, nevirapine, rilpivirine, etravirine and doravirine are all NNRTIs.

Drug targets in the virus life cycle.

Listing of NNRTIs.