Mention HIV/AIDS and the spotlight turns immediately to the plight in Africa and Asia. However, while nobody can deny these continents are now facing the worst of the crisis, Europe cannot afford to ignore the problem on its own doorstep.
The standard of care for the treatment of HIV-1 infection is now a regimen of at least three antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, usually two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTI) plus a non-nucleoside RTI (NNRTI) or a protease inhibitor (PI).