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HIV life cycle – how drugs work in different ways

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

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HIV life cycle

Last updated: 1 July 2022.

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