HIV lifecycle – how drugs work in different ways
If a CD4 cell is infected by HIV, this cell is used to produce hundreds of copies of new HIV.
Different drugs block different parts of this process, called the HIV life cycle.

If a CD4 cell is infected by HIV, this cell is used to produce hundreds of copies of new HIV.
Different drugs block different parts of this process, called the HIV life cycle.

April 2012
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