highly active antiretroviral therapy

Questions about highly active antiretroviral therapy

What does highly active antiretroviral therapy mean?

highly active antiretroviral therapy means "a combination of protease inhibitors taken with reverse transcriptase inhibitors; used in treating AIDS and HIV".

What is another word for highly active antiretroviral therapy?

Close synonyms include drug cocktail, HAART. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is highly active antiretroviral therapy a common word?

highly active antiretroviral therapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.