FDA Approved AIDS Drugs

For those seeking treatment options, below is a listing of medications available in the USA. Please note that this list is not 100% complete, and does not include all possible available or recently approved medications. Also, it is possible to buy some of these medicines as generics and as such they would have different names.

• Agenerase (amprenavir) - Protease inhibitor.
• Aptivus® (tipranavir) - Protease inhibitor.
• Atripla; Three pills in one; combines the active ingredients of Sustiva (efavirenz), Emtriva (emtricitabine) and Viread (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate).
• Combivir -combination of Retrovir (300mg) and Epivir (150mg) - together in the same tablet for convenience.
• Crixivan (indinavir) - protease inhibitor.
• Emtriva [ emtricitabine (FTC).
• Epivir (3tc / lamivudine) - nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor
• Epzicom ( a combination of 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs in the same pill; 600mg of Ziagen (abacavir) and 300mg of Epivir (3TC).
• Fortovase (saquinavir) - protease inhibitor.
• Fuzeon (enfuvirtide) - Fusion inhibitor.
• Isentress (raltegravir) Integrase Inhibitor.
• Invirase (saquinavir) - protease inhibitor.
• Kaletra (lopinavir) - protease inhibitor.
• Lexiva (Fosamprenavir) - Protease Inhibitor approved 10/20/03
  Formerly known as GW-433908 or VX-175
  Improved version of Agenerase ( amprenavir); supposed to be fewer pills per day and fewer GI Side effects.
• Norvir (ritonavir) - protease inhibitor.
• PREZISTA (darunavir) tablets. - protease inhibitor;
  used when other protease inhibitors don't work any more.
• Rescriptor (delavirdine) - non nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
• Retrovir, AZT (zidovudine) - nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
• Reyataz (atazanavir; BMS-232632) - protease inhibitor.
• Sustiva (efavirenz) - non nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase.
• Trizivir (3 non nucleosides in one tablet ; abacavir + zidovudine + lamivudine.
• Truvada (Emtricitabine + Tenofovir DF )
  Combination of 2 nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NRTI's in one pill).
• Videx (ddl / didanosine) nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
• Viracept (nelfinavir) - protease inhibitor.
• Viramune (nevirapine) - non nucleoside analog Reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
• Viread (tenofovir disoproxil fumarate) Nucleotide Reverse transcriptase inhibitor ( Adenosine Class).
• Zerit (d4t / stavudine) - nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
• Ziagen (abacavir) - nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor.

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