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pharmacist – a medical professional who specialises in sourcing and dispensing drugs. A pharmacist should be an expert in drug interactions, and on exactly how drugs should be taken.

Cmin or Ctrough – lowest concentration of a drug just before the next dose.

What happens when you take a drug?

seroreversion – the word for when the baby born to an HIV-positive mother, no longer has the mother’s antibodies to HIV.

BMI (body mass index) – a calculation usingĀ  height and weight that is used to decide whether someone is over or under weight.

Online BMI calculator.

drug resistant (HIV) – HIV that is harder to treat because of genetic changes.