fixed dose combination (FDC) – several drugs combined in one tablet at a standard dose.
Glossary
Selected words and phrases
steatosis – fatty liver. Build up of fat in the liver. Steatosis worsens liver damage and makes hepatitis C harder to treat.
performance stage – WHO classification of progress of HIV infection.
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.
fold-change – a term relating to drug resistance after a phenotype resistance test.
4-fold resistance (also called a 4-fold loss in sensitivity) means you need to use four times the dose to get the same reduction in viral load.