All six major classes of drugs used to manage HIV infection have the ability to:

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The six major classes of drugs used to manage HIV infection are nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs), non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), protease inhibitors (PIs), fusion inhibitors, integrase strand transfer inhibitors (INSTIs), and CCR5 antagonists. All of them work by inhibiting enzymes that are necessary for viral replication except for fusion inhibitors, which prevent the virus from entering the host cell, and CCR5 antagonists, which inhibit the CCR5 co-receptors on the surface of CD4 cells that the virus uses to enter the cells. However, not all six classes of drugs have the ability to promote cell division only in uninfected cells.

All Six Major Classes of Drugs Used to Manage HIV