treatment-naive – someone who has never taken any anti-HIV treatments before. (Note: people who are treatment naive can still be resistant to anti-HIV drugs if they were infected with a drug resistant strain of HIV}.
Glossary
Selected words and phrases
febrile – medical word relating to fever
lactate – waste product produced when sugar is turned into energy by the body.
ETR (end of treatment response) – having an undetectable HCV viral load at the end of HCV treatment. See SVR.
decimal fraction – a fraction turned into a number by dividing the top part by the bottom part. For example, the decimal fraction for 3/5 is 0.6.