Antiretroviral therapy, People on ART take a combination of HIV medicines,
Antiretroviral drugs are TDF (tenofovir), either 3TC (lamivudine), or FTC (emtricitabine), and EFV (efavirenz).
Goals of antiretroviral treatment for HIV: Suppress HIV multiplication. The goal is to have no detectable virus in the blood for as long as possible. At this level, the virus is essentially shut down.
The alveoli is where the oxygen moves out of the lungs and into the blood. At the same time carbon dioxide moves out of the blood and into the lungs to be exhaled.