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Janelle is taking the drug raltegravir. What is the drug doing in her body to reduce the levels of HIV?

O The integrase inhibitor prevents the virus from the making of new viral proteins that can assemble into new viruses.
O The protease inhibitor prevents the virus from the making of new viral proteins that can assemble into new viruses.
O The protease inhibitor prevents the viral DNA from being inserted into her cellular DNA.
O The integrase inhibitor prevents the viral DNA from being inserted into her cellular DNA.

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This is called antiretroviral therapy. Two other options, PEP and PrEP, can prevent HIV. HIV is a type of virus called a retrovirus. In a person with HIV, antiretroviral therapy reduces the amount of the virus in the body to very low levels.

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NRTIs.

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