{"id":26896,"date":"2026-10-15T01:11:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T01:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/?p=26896"},"modified":"2026-10-15T14:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T14:29:44","slug":"what-is-the-difference-between-hiv-arvs-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/26896","title":{"rendered":"What is the difference between ARVs and ART?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there<\/p>\n<p>Thanks &#8211; there isn&#8217;t really much difference in these two terms.<\/p>\n<p>Often they can both be used in the same ways.<\/p>\n<p>A detailed answer though is that ARVs refers to the whole family of meds that are used to treat HIV. Or used in PEP and PrEP for HIV prevention.<\/p>\n<p>ARVs stand for antiretrovirals.<\/p>\n<p>ART stands for antiretroviral treatment. So technically, ART usually refers to a combination of\u00a0drugs used to treat one person. This is usually a combination of three ARVs but there are a few combinations with just two ARVs or four ARVs.<\/p>\n<p>Good question though :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there, I am writing from South Sudan and I wanted to know what is different between ART and ARVs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,57,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-injectable-art","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}