00:04
When doctors are prescribing antiviral medication for patients that have hiv, they will do this usually in what we call a cocktail.
00:18
And what i mean by a cocktail is this cocktail could have multiple antiviral drugs, all in that cocktail.
00:33
And what they do when they give that cocktail to this individual, now those antivirals are exposed to me.
00:42
Multiple drugs.
00:45
And what that will occur is we hope, some things that we hope it does when it does this is we hope that it reduces number of viruses, obviously.
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Another thing that we hope it does is that it reduces the genetic variation in the viruses themselves.
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Yeah.
01:21
Anyway, so these are kind of the two mage points that, uh, um, that we hope it happens the last thing that we hope it doesn't do that we don't want to forget this last one is that we hope it reduces and this kind of goes along with number two but we hope it reduces the resistance to drugs okay so uh this is a very important thing that we see happening that is uh really hard because every time that we find a new strain of viral a virus we have to find a new antiviral drug to attack then.
02:04
So we want to reduce the resistance that we're seeing occur.
02:08
And there's a lot of procedures that we can do to lower that.
02:11
Anyways, these are the three main things that we want to see happen from an antiviral drug.
02:17
The question then arises, instead of giving them just all these drugs at once, what if we did it simultaneous, or sorry, what if they did it in sequence instead? so we have simultaneous, cost, or in sequence.
02:39
And why is it that doctors, would we have the same effect as we see in the cocktail mixture if we just did in sequence? what i mean by sequence is, let's say that in this cocktail there are three drugs.
02:52
What if we gave them one drug for a certain amount of time, and then after that we moved on, gave them the second drug, and then moved on and gave them the third drug...
