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Will you need other medications?
If you take saquinavir (Invirase) you will also need to take one or two other antiviral medications, called reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Reverse transcriptase inhibitors such as AZT (Retrovir), ddI (Videx), ddC (Hivid), d4T (Zerit), or 3TC (Epivir) are antiviral drugs that block HIV at a different point in its life cycle than protease inhibitors (see diagram). Although indinavir (Crixivan), ritonavir (Norvir), and nelfinavir (Viracept) may be taken by themselves, most doctors will also prescribe one or two reverse transcriptase inhibitors along with the protease inhibitor. Research shows that combining two or more antiviral drugs is more effective than taking one drug alone. The HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service can give you information on all of these anti-HIV drugs.
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