How to Use antiretroviral in a Sentence

antiretroviral

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• So many of my friends and colleagues missed the antiretroviral drugs that would have saved their lives.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 13 July 2021
• This is where antiretroviral drugs can step in, blocking certain parts of this process.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2021
• That risk was found even in people whose virus was undetectable in their blood because of antiretroviral drugs.
  — Jill Daly, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2017
• Many of the 40 had gone through treatments with at least 10 antiretroviral drugs.
  — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 6 Mar. 2018
• All of them had been on antiretroviral therapy for an average of seven years.
  — David Cox, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
• The drugs are approved to treat adults with the most common strain of the virus and target patients who have received no prior antiretroviral treatment.
  — Alexandria Hein, Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018
• For those who contract HIV, antiretroviral medicines offer the chance of a near-normal life.
  — The Economist, 13 June 2018
• That 20 cents will cover the cost of one day’s worth of antiretroviral medication for someone in the region.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 1 Dec. 2019
• The antiretroviral pause also carried real risks.
  — David Cox, NPR, 25 Aug. 2025
• Today, antiretroviral medicines can control HIV and help people live long lives.
  — Judith Feinberg, STAT, 1 Dec. 2019
• That's in part due to the increasing access to antiretroviral therapies, as well as drugs that can prevent new infections.
  — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 7 July 2020
• Some two years after the stem cell transplant, the man and his physicians decided to interrupt his antiretroviral treatment.
  — Benjamin Ryan, NBC News, 27 July 2022
• While deaths have been capped thanks to the world’s biggest antiretroviral treatment program, Covid-19 has added a new wrinkle to their plight.
  — Antony Sguazzin, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2021
• Lenacapavir is an antiretroviral drug, which works by stopping the virus from replicating to keep HIV levels in the body very low.
  — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
• Over that time, a man can spread the virus to dozens of partners; but a man who has been tested and takes his antiretroviral pills every day is at virtually zero risk of passing on the virus.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 26 Mar. 2018
• One patient has now been off antiretroviral drug treatment for 15 weeks and the other for seven weeks, and no signs of the virus have been detected in either patient so far.
  — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2013
• The child, born in Mississippi, was given high doses of antiretroviral drugs within 30 hours of being born.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 6 June 2021
• Now 26, Moore takes just one pill a day — an antiretroviral treatment that makes the virus undetectable and untransmittable to others.
  — NBC News, 10 June 2021
• And while the cost of antiretroviral treatments have plummeted in the last two decades to less than $100 per person per year, condoms can be produced for less than a penny each.
  — Aurora Almendral, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2017
• Roughly one in four people living with HIV do not have access to antiretroviral drugs and 15% don’t even know their status.
  — Jennifer Lotito, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• One wonders whether this movie is a product of a world where antiretroviral drugs and other treatments have made HIV a livable condition so many.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 20 Oct. 2017
• The go-to treatment for the infection is antiretroviral therapy, better known as ART.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 3 July 2019
• The disease is manageable for many, as nearly eight in ten people globally receive antiretroviral therapy as treatment.
  — Solcyré Burga, Time, 26 Dec. 2025
• About six months into the research, two of the medications in her antiretroviral HIV cocktail were replaced.
  — Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
• He’s been unhoused since 2012 and struggled to maintain his antiretroviral therapy while living in homeless shelters or on the street.
  — Hadley Green, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• In the last 20 years, medicine has developed a regimen of drugs to treat HIV known as antiretroviral therapy.
  — David Hogberg, Washington Examiner, 29 Apr. 2021
• Because of modern antiretroviral therapies (ART), most live near-normal lifespans and cannot transmit the virus.
  — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 June 2026
• The advent of antiretroviral drugs in the 1990s marked the beginning of a hopeful shift, and a decade later, after an era of despair, gay life reclaimed its vibrancy in the city.
  — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• The man stopped taking antiretroviral medication for his HIV in 2018 and remains in remission, or a state of having no virus present in the body.
  — Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 18 July 2024
• Then Concillia was connected to a support group of other people living with HIV and began taking antiretroviral medicine.
  — Jennifer Lotito, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025