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Highly active antiretroviral therapy
Pronunciation
Definition 1
Treatment for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection that uses a combination of several antiretroviral drugs. The drugs inhibit the ability of the virus to multiply in the body, and they slow down the development of AIDS. Also called HAART. (NCI Dictionary)
Definition 2
Drug therapy which targets retrovirus function by multiple mechanisms. (NCI Thesaurus)
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