ribavirin – drug used to boost the efficacy of pegylated interferon to treat hepatitis C. Given as twice-daily capsules.
Glossary
Selected words and phrases
event-based dosing – See EBD.
BI – budding inhibitor. Class of HIV drug.
HBV – hepatitis B, a virus that causes liver disease.
randomise – in research, this is a way of decide at random which participants join each group. So neither you or your doctor chose which group you join in a research study. A common example is that the decision would be made similar to tossing a coin.
More information from the i-Base guide to HIV research.